Plums by Nicholas Bielby J H Prynne Bread and Circus is a

Bread and Circus is a hybrid and palimpsestic memoir-in-verse: it combines poetry

part internal monologue

University of London

Whether savoured in sips or gulped down in one

in animal and imagined lives

Plums by Nicholas Bielby J H Prynne Bread and Circus is aNicholas Bielby went from grammar school in Huddersfield to Cambridge, and then to teach in India. After that, he spent most of his working life in teacher education. After retiring from Leeds University, he was editor of the poetry magazine, Pennine Platform, for 15 years. He has written four academic books and five previous books of poetry and has won numerous prizes in competitions, including the Arvon International and New Poetry. Anne Stevenson