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Under the weight of the sky

A portrait of the Fens

Poems by Cameron Self

Drawings by Stephen Hyatt-Cross

Introduction by Simon Knott

Cover image by Fred Ingrams

‘Under the Weight of the Sky captures the strange beauty and history of the Fens. It is a liminal landscape where glimpses of things are seen from stopped trains, where Hereward stalks and Guthlac hermits. Self’s poems capture the snag and trouble of the landscape and its submerged histories. They also serve as a warning to man’s impermanence. These are vital poems that continue the imaginative auditing of Fenland literature coupled with haunting illustrations of the Fens by Stephen Hyatt-Cross that seem in conversation with the poems.’

Andrew McDonnell

Paperback / Published by Waterland Books 2026

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