The English Summer is the debut collection by Holly Hopkins, confronting an increasingly fearful future. Hopkins long-awaited debut confronts the illusions and paradoxes of English history in poems that range from medieval anchorites and 18th-century follies to zombies and the Megabus. This is a landscape populated by overcrowded urban bedsits and burnt out country piles, where ghosts of the past are sensed beneath dual carriageways and a pie-faced St George is upstaged by the horse.