Counting Backwards: Poems 1975-2017 by Helen Dunmore Doris Kareva Now You Can Look communicates

Now You Can Look communicates across the decades how women have attempted to make sense of it all by making art

and the title poem) show the preoccupation with death and transience that is so typical of the poet

we are left with a renewed awareness of the mystery at the core of existence

Sextus Propertius

is a lavishly illustrated collection of 366 nature poems - one for every day of the year

Counting Backwards: Poems 1975-2017 by Helen Dunmore Doris Kareva Now You Can Look communicatesWinner of the Costa Book of the Year for her final collection, Inside the Wave, Helen Dunmore was as spellbinding a storyteller in her poetry as in her prose. Many of her haunting narratives draw us into darkness, engaging our fears and hopes in poetry of rare luminosity, while all her poetry also casts a bright, revealing light on the living world, by land and sea, on love, longing and loss. Counting Backwards is a retrospective covering ten