ISBN: 978-1-911027-91-1

Price: £9.99

Publication date: 16^th April 2020

Paperback, 72 pp

This deeply moving new collection from Abegail Morley explores the altitudes of trauma, mapping the stark new territory that loss leaves behind, where the landmarks of absence overfill with memories, where the missing loom large, casting their unshifting shadow.

Several lives and life-changing themes cross paths in this clear-sighted and profound book, and Morley’s adept and courageous poetry guides us through the wooded shades and raw coastlines, dauntless: “Bear with me. I can take nature let wind whip our faces”. From the hollowing of the empty place and the five stages of grief, these resolute poems with their mettle and wholeheartedness, chart their remarkable, bold course towards the voicing of a song, the light of the next day.

About the Author:

Abegail Morley was Highly Commended in this year’s Forward Prize. Her debut collection, How to Pour Madness into a Teacup was shortlisted for the Forward Prize Best First Collection. Her collection, The Skin Diary, published by Nine Arches Press, and, Snow Child, published by Pindrop Press are both reviewed in the TLS. She is one of the co-editors of Against the Grain Press, an innovative small independent poetry publisher dedicated to publishing challenging, well-crafted poetry. She was named one of the Five British Poets to watch by The Huffington Post in 2017.