Jackie Wills, in her new collection A Friable Earth (Arc, £9.99), engages with contemporary concerns about climate change in an historical context. She examines the soil, 'gubber and gawm' in Sussex dialect, and confesses l've beasted it, breaking it up for years; in 'Road from the North' she encounters farmworkers, rubber bullets and burning vines; and when she sees the old address her father wrote on an empty envelope she grows young again and reflects, I hear his Jacqueline, the four beats of 3 Stream Farm Close, the tremor of my teens.