Excerpt from The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

cwell the bastard
cwell the bastard
cwell the bastard

in these places there is wihts uncnawan to man there moste be no law put on us by sweord or by word of ingenga cyng
bastard tamer with stan and style the wilde is all

wood not stan

it will tac thu baec

water not the lea

it can wait long

the hafoc not the ox

but we colde not wait long we colde wait no mor

an unfree land breeds an unfree folc

and i moste go baec now baec before the storm baec to when things was still lic the springmere

go baec yes go baec

Paul Kingsnorth, excerpt from The Wake. Copyright (c) by Paul Kingsnorth. Reprinted with the permission of Graywolf Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota, www.graywolfpress.org.