The Green Month by Matthew Francis Karen Leeder Protect the game birds then

Protect the game birds then shoot them for sport

with a DVD of filmed highlights from recent performances

The first English-language collection from one of India’s most hard-hitting writers

in public spaces

He has added his own strand of writing to the distinctively European genre of prose poems in pieces which describe everyday objects in minute terms

The Green Month by Matthew Francis Karen Leeder Protect the game birds thenPublished 23rd October 2025. Delightful new versions of the great Welsh medieval poet's lyrics intimate, urgent and timeless Dafydd ap Gwilym, the pre eminent poet of Wales, explored love, desire and the natural world with startling frankness and virtuoso wit. In a sequence freely adapted from Dafydd's work, Matthew Francis brings him to life for the modern English speaking reader: as he waits in the woods for his lover, ogles the girls in church or