Winner of the 2016 Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize for First Full Collection Shortlisted for the 2017 Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Poetry Award In the informal rituals of the tide remaking its tideline of a painter absorbed in the act of painting or of an old couple greeting the night the English poet Kate Miller sees & charts the creative process at work As its title suggests Miller's striking debut collection explores perception the poet's eye & ear trained on distances that stretch beyond comfort zones This is a book full of movement even quiet reflections on home & family life are rarely still Throughout the collection Miller dwells on the unfixed & restless image & shows herself as subject to it
- to the difficult illusion of physical energy in sculpture to the changeability of skies & the insistent rhythm & presence of the sea