Summer to Summer, Looking by Gill McEvoy shearsman books to the modern British mountaineer

to the modern British mountaineer Alison Hargreaves

and much-treasured observations of the natural world

Writing about love and desire

Virgil’s beautiful telling of the story of Orpheus and Euridice

City of Departures is a collection of uncanny spaces and fleeting encounters

Summer to Summer, Looking by Gill McEvoy shearsman books to the modern British mountaineerGill McEvoy is a poet who moves through the world with all her senses open. The quality of attention here is profound and pays off in an elegance of phrase and originality of image that makes these poems sing off the page. There is often a playfulness at work in the linguistic dexterity of these pieces, as the poet engages in a car chase with the moon or the flora, fauna and meteorology of October are presented as a weather forecast. There is a