Featuring poems on British activity in Ireland through the ages intrude on an intensely moving series of love poems which reverse sexual clinches of colonisation, this title has the historical awareness and linguistic energy.
Beautiful, disturbing and a pleasure to read, Ruth Padel's new poems are her most ambitious yet, adding animal legend and zoological science to her glitteringly imaginative canvas.
A new collection from one of our most distinguished poets, painting a portrait in verse of two iconic female figures poised between history and legend, and unravelling the millennia of myth men have woven around them to explore the notion of girlhood itself.