The Coffer Dams Keiron Farrow images of Thompson’s paintings and

images of Thompson’s paintings and extracts from

A children's Christmas classic in the making

raw and intimate language and rhythms

The 1950s are often seen as the “grey decade”

and those changes are noted and considered by poems that are remarkable for their clear-eyed witness

The Coffer Dams Keiron Farrow images of Thompson’s paintings andClinton, founder and head of a firm of international engineers, arrives in India to build a dam, bringing with him his young wife, Helen, and a strong team of aides and skilled men. They are faced with a formidable challenge, which involves working in daunting mountain and jungle terrain, within a time schedule dictated by the extreme tropical weather. Setbacks occur which bring into focus fundamental differences in the attitudes to life and death of