by HelenDunmore (Author)
Winner of the Costa Book of the Year for her final collection, Inside the Wave, Helen Dunmore was as spellbinding a storyteller in her poetry as in her prose. Many of her haunting narratives draw us into darkness, engaging our fears and hopes in poetry of rare luminosity, while all her poetry also casts a bright, revealing light on the living world, by land and sea, on love, longing and loss. Counting Backwards is a retrospective covering ten collections written over four decades, bringing together all the poems she included in her earlier selection, Out of the Blue (2001), with all those from her three later collections, Glad of These Times (2007), The Malarkey (2012) and Inside the Wave (2017), along with a number of additional poems from her earlier collections.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 416
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Published: 21 Feb 2019
ISBN 10: 1780374453
ISBN 13: 9781780374451
Book Overview: Wide review coverage expected for Counting Backwards, following the great public and media interest in Inside the Wave as Helen Dunmore's final collection and Costa Book of the Year.