Silence and Fallowfields: Poems of Albion, Memory, and Becoming

By Anton Tilli

What does it mean to belong-when every place feels temporary?

Silence and Fallowfields is a meditative poetry collection shaped by movement, attention, and the quiet courage of not fully belonging. Rooted in the landscapes of Albion-its northern fields, railways, yards, and weather-these poems move outward and inward at once, drawing on Mediterranean memory, classical thought, and the lived experience of a modern, multicultural world.

At the heart of the book is a simple conviction: that life is not owned but borrowed, and that meaning emerges when we learn to slow down. Influenced by Roman philosophy-especially Seneca's belief that time is wasted not by its brevity but by our inattention-these poems resist haste. They linger with animals, rest in silence, and attend to the small, easily overlooked gestures that shape a life.

Across fallow fields and shifting borders, the poems explore exile, return, and becoming: the condition of those who feel fully at home nowhere, yet discover that anywhere can become home. Trains pass between towns; memories cross languages; voices gather beneath more than one sky. Fear of the future is acknowledged, but never allowed to rule. What remains essential is simple and human: ground enough to keep walking, and sky enough to look up into.

Silence and Fallowfields treats poetry as a space of freedom-where sound, metaphor, and invention coexist with clarity and restraint. These poems seek not spectacle, but presence; not answers, but attention. They offer a place to pause, to listen, and to let the spirit rest.

This collection will appeal to readers who value:

contemporary British and European poetrypoems of place, travel, and belongingreflections on time, memory, and impermanencelyric writing shaped by nature, animals, and everyday observationa modern engagement with myth and classical philosophy

Quiet, humane, and deeply attentive, Silence and Fallowfields invites the reader to walk slowly, listen closely, and inhabit the possible.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H29PVJG8
• ISBN13: 9798196500169
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 56 Pages
• Weight: 0.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.0" x 8.0"