One of the many upheavals in the cultural world over the lifetime of this reviewer has been a reappraisal of Pastoral poetry. We weren’t entirely fair to the Pastoral as a genre in my youth, regarding it as an artificial and rather sentimental construct – all those highly cultivated (and presumably rich) people pretending to … Continue reading EVER AND ALWAYS, FROM THE GROUND UP: Elizabeth Rimmer reviews Jim Carruth’s ‘Auchensale Trilogy’