Image: Environment Secretary Michael Gove with Adam Horovitz's new book, The Soil Never Sleeps.
Out amongst the farms of England and Wales, in the depths of Britain’s valleys or up its highest hills, amongst carefully managed flocks of sheep and herds of cattle, and as often as not way out of mobile signal, it can be easy to forget about the hurly burly of day-to-day politics. Especially if one is a poet rather than a farmer.
I spent just over a year getting usefully lost in the rural landscapes of Britain, writing The Soil Never Sleeps as poet-in-residence for the Pasture-fed Livestock Association (PfLA), from April 2016 to July 2017.
