Former shepherd turned activist Bill Bradford reflects on his many years, first looking after flocks of sheep and later disadvantaged workers in his first poetry collection, No Rising of the Sheep. Bill lives in Wellsford these days. While his later years were spent as a trade union organiser and activist, he's recently found himself writing a lot about his time on the land. Lynn Freeman talks with Bill Bradford about the rural memories that infuse so much of his poetry. No Rising of the Sheep, poems by Bill Bradford is a Mary Egan Publishing publication. The collection is filled with pencil drawings by Thomas Lauterbach