Publisher's Synopsis
Winner of the Costa Book Prize 2017
“An astonishing set of poems – a final, great achievement.”
Poems about mortality, illness, being alive and the borderline between the living human world and the underworld. As well as winning the National Poetry Competition, Cardiff International Poetry Prize and Signal Poetry Award (for her poetry for children), she has had a Poetry Book Society Choice and PBS Recommendations for her poetry collections, and was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.
