Slant Light A Herring Famine No Map Could Show Them

No Map Could Show Them confirms Helen Mort’s position as one of the finest young poets at work today

Throughout

with several of the poems spaced to look like mirror images of each other

He has a westernist

' – Jackie Kay

Slant Light A Herring Famine No Map Could Show ThemIn her first full length collection, Sarah Westcott immerses the human self in the natural world, giving voice to a remarkable range of flora and fauna so often silenced or unheard. Here, the voiceless speaks, laments and sings from the fresh voice of a spring wood to a colony of bats or a grove of ancient sequioa trees. Unafraid of using scientific language and teamed with a clear eye, Westcotts poems are drawn directly from the natural world,