Traces the red threads running through Litherlands long life back to a childhood spent in country lanes and air raid shelters and before that the ghosts of the Levellers and Diggers the 1848 Springtime of the Nations and the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 whose frail free spirit was famously celebrated in Malevichs Composition in White. Her seventh collection is also a secret book of England cricket and Morris dancing Bohemian artists and the long shadow of the war years a state of the nation arch