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Ralf Webb is the author of Rotten Days in Late Summer, which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and the nonfiction book Strange Relations, which was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. His poems, essays, and fiction have appeared widely, including in the London Review of Books, Fantastic Man, Granta and the Guardian. This is his second collection.
Stunning … a masterful exploration of the past, the present, the political, and the pastoral in all its spectre -- Rachel Long The poems of Highway Cottage embody the intangibility of return. In their midst, to revisit is always to witness anew and, if fortunate, to be renewed also -- Victoria Adukwei Bulley Highway Cottage portrays a landscape of irrepressible beauty and disquiet. It’s a collection attuned to the fields and their secrets, indebted to the rivers and the young swimmers who slip into them. Language blooms, unfurls, the imagery stains everything it touches. Rural life is ripe with tensions, and Webb situates himself at its fringes, guiding, prodding, asking -- Momtaza Mehri Praise for Ralf Webb * - * Ralf Webb is an ethnographer of the present. He is interested in everyday life in the extreme -- Peter Gizzi Never less than razor-sharp. With a storyteller's flair, he evokes a world of shifting terrains … It all feels gloriously, anarchically new -- Julia Copus An important voice in British poetry -- Eley Williams This is close-range language, magnifying without prejudice both the beautiful and the hard -- Anne Boyer
