Understories is available as a CD and an A5 poetry book and is collaboration between Whalebone and poet Jean Atkin

Postage and packaging is 1.50 to mainland UK addresses. Outside the UK P&P is 5.00.

Please allow 2-5 working days for delivery (International orders are longer and depend on the Country).

Shropshire Folklore - Discover Shropshire’s

Understories is available as a CD and an A5 poetry book and is collaboration between Whalebone and poet Jean Atkin

Postage and packaging is £1.50 to mainland UK addresses. Outside the UK P&P is £5.00.

Please allow 2-5 working days for delivery (International orders are longer and depend on the Country).

Shropshire Folklore - Discover Shropshire’s last wolves and cloggers, its haunted roundabouts, pigs, railway lines and oak trees, not to mention the boy who burrowed under a church. 

The CD features 10 new tracks and a poetry book with 14 of Jean's poems.

'Understories is a delightful, grounded and musical collection of poems that reminds us - through its brightly singing stories - how history is ravelled around memory, community and habitation: that ‘this is living, this is.’ David Morley, winner of the Ted Hughes Award

Jean Atkin gathers her ‘common : uncommon’ hoard of Shropshire stories, memories and folk myths to magick them into strange, beautiful, haunting poems. Atkin’s language is delicate, precise, filmic: she brings worlds together, honouring the dead.  Unsurprisingly, these lilting, imagistic poems are being set to music: they are ideally suited for performance. Spanning the seasons of human life, Understories is a stunning achievement. Pippa Little (Carcanet, Arc)