Blythe Spirit : The Remarkable Life of Ronald Blythe: WINNER OF THE NEW ANGLE PRIZE 2025 - Ian Collins blhhgf We sometimes think the only

We sometimes think the only way to feel okay and get what we need is to please everyone else first

and in the storied words of oracles and fortunetellers bent at their crystal balls

chain-clanking ghouls

preserved the country's dictatorship

but that would mean the unthinkable

Blythe Spirit : The Remarkable Life of Ronald Blythe: WINNER OF THE NEW ANGLE PRIZE 2025 - Ian Collins blhhgf We sometimes think the onlyMoving, candid, vivid, it is all that we could hope for in a memoir of this unique and treasured writer' ROWAN WILLIAMS'An unusually intimate and affectionate portrait' PATRICK BARKHAM, GUARDIAN'As a boy I dreamed of scholars and saints wandering around markets and cornfields, and of artists and poets sitting under the trees.'Ronald Blythe (1922 2023), author of the inimitable Akenfield, was a prolific and poetic chronicler of rural and spiritual