‘A quietly magnificent book. Wholly lived. A magnificat in that way. Devoted to the austere and painful truths that poem by poem it discovers and quietly, as ever, magnifies. These poems sound a music like the warming subsong of a blackbird from the bare heart of a winter thorn, a cold cheer, a kindling blues.‘
– Tim Dee, author of Greenery
‘A magical combination of the delicate and the intense.’
– Julia Blackburn, author of Time Song
‘Enchanting . . . what good poems.‘
– Ronald Blythe, author of Akenfield
‘A song of seasonal degeneration and rejuvenation . . . an incantatory rhythm that quietly but insistently interrogates the ecological future of the planet and laments the carelessness with which it is treated.’
– Dzifa Benson, The Poetry Review