Green Resistance

Anna Adams was born in West London in 1926. She studied art at Harrow Art School and Hornsey College of Art, and in 1947 married the painter Norman Adams. She has worked as an art teacher, a causal farm labourer, a pottery designer, and latterly as a freelance writer, while still drawing, painting and making terracottas. Her most recent publications, combining prose and poetry, are Island Chapters (1991) and Life on Limestone (1994).

'Adams puts ... pregnant ewes, snow drifts, rowan trees in bloom and ancient names for wildflowers ... into the most unexpected poetic shapes: terza rima, Sapphics, villanelles, Horatian stanzas, etc. Instead of seeming ill-matched, her material and her forms nourish each other, and the reader encounters a perhaps over-familiar North Country world in a fresh livery.'Peter Porter, Observer