This posthumously published retrospection covers Downie's collections A Strange Here (1977) and Plainsong (1981) along with a larger number of previously uncollected poems. 'Although Freda Downie was to publish only one more full book before her death in 1993, the equally well received Plainsong, she continued, as Grigson said, to get it better and better. Because she was shy of publishing she received less of the limelight than she might have had,...
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