Oswald's Book of Hours Nadia Alkowkabani His television career began with

His television career began with a string of single plays as well as contributions to the pioneering Z Cars series

“John Ormond’s poems about people are infallibly accurate and compassionate under the surface of humour

sensitivity and sensuality

this is some of the best writing I’ve ever seen

Oswald's Book of Hours Nadia Alkowkabani His television career began withShortlisted for the 2013 Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Oswald, King of Northumbria from 635 to 642 AD, was a warrior, evangelist, hunter, scholar, martyr and, most famously of all, main rival to Georges claim to be patron saint of England. Oswalds Book of Hours is a series of elegies and eulogies for Oswald, written in the voices of an unlikely band of northern radicals, including union leader Arthur Scargill, hermit Richard Rolle, brigand