These are the voices of those who are silent: in the graveyards, holy wells, the river, the changing tides. A ghostly choir of lost children, hermits, lovers and rough sleepers, serving maids and sailor boys, saints and hermaphrodites resounding through the rhythms of the water. Places and objects communicate also: a chapel, oak tree, back-lane, woodland, riverside town; bones sing and a bell tolls. The poems speak with them and for them, channelling their messages, their visions and their warnings.
Eleanor Rees is the author of Andraste’s Hair (Salt, 2007), shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Glen Dimplex New Writers’ Awards, Eliza and the Bear (Salt, 2009), Blood Child (Liverpool University Press/Pavilion, 2015) and a long pamphlet Riverine (Gatehouse Press, 2015). Eleanor received a Northern Writers’ Award for Poetry 2018. Eleanor is Lecturer in Creative Writing at Liverpool Hope University and lives in Liverpool. www.eleanorrees.info
Margaret Murphy, Ramsey Campbell, James Friel, Brian Patten, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Clive Barker, Tracy Aston, Dinesh Allirajah, Paul Farley, Eleanor Rees, Maria Crossan
Margaret Murphy, Ramsey Campbell, James Friel, Brian Patten, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Clive Barker, Tracy Aston, Dinesh Allirajah, Paul Farley, Eleanor Rees, Maria Crossan