“Foxglove Country” is from Zaffar Kunial’s new poetry collection, England’s Green, which has just been shortlisted for the 2022 T S Eliot Prize. It is reprinted by kind permission of Faber.

Zaffar Kunial lives in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, and was born in Birmingham. His debut collection, Us, was shortlisted for a number of prizes. He was a 2022 recipient of the Yale University Windham-Campbell Prize. England’s Green is his second book