The Tablet poem – Midsummer by Jean Sprackland

Jean Sprackland
26 June 2025, The Tablet

This photograph shows a house ruin in summer in the ghost village of Hameau du Manchet, Val d'Isère, France

Frédéric VIELCANET / Alamy

Poetry – Midsummer by Jean Sprackland

Jean Sprackland is a poet and writer. She is the winner of the Costa Poetry Award in 2008, and the Portico Prize for Non-Fiction in 2012. Her books have also been shortlisted for the Forward Prize, the TS Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Award.

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