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The Franks Casket is an Anglo-Saxon treasure chest in the British Museum, decorated with runes, Latin text and images. Each rune has a pictorial value; I determined the sequence of images given by the runes and then used these images to write the poems, which aim to capture something of the layered histories of the river Teign and its surroundings.
Andy Brown's recent poetry books include Bloodlines (2018) and Exurbia (2014) with Worple Press. Previous books include The Fool and the Physician (2012), Goose Music (with John Burnside, 2008) and Fall of the Rebel Angels: Poems 1996-2006 (2006) with Salt Publishing. He co-edited A Body of Work: An Anthology of Poetry and Medicine (Bloomsbury, 2016) with Corinna Wagner, and edited The Writing Occurs As Song: a Kelvin Corcoran Reader (Shearsman Books, 2015). He is Associate Professor at Exeter University, where he founded the creative writing programme.