Paul Batchelor reads six poems from his first collection THE SINKING ROAD (Bloodaxe Books, 2008) at the launch event held by the Wordsworth Trust in their Dove Cottage series of readings in June 2008 (with fellow debutants Frances Leviston and Kathryn Simmonds). The poems are: 'Artemis', 'Keening' (for Barry MacSweeney), 'Secret Papers'. 'Honesty', 'Suibne in the Trees' (from the sequence 'Suibne Changed'), and 'Finding', a five-part poem written for his grandfather recalling the time during the 1930s when he worked in Kielder Forest in Northumberland.