Blood Child

Eleanor Rees is the author of 'Andraste’s Hair' (Salt, 2007), shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Glen Dimplex New Writers Awards, and 'Eliza and the Bear' (Salt, 2009). She often collaborates with other writers, musicians and artists, and works to commission. Eleanor has worked extensively as a local poet in the community. She lives in Liverpool.

'This is a short collection of 19 poems but the author and publishers should be applauded for having a collection that does not fit the poem a page routine. [...] In this third collection we can read the substantial creativity of Eleanor Rees and her melding of history, nature and emotion and the skill in developing a ‘oneness’ from a multitude of ideas. Foremost in her writing is the use of changing forms, transmogrifying, as it were into different species whilst in full flow which offers both continuation and further development of style as well as theme. There is also the touching on the darker recesses of the unconscious mind, not a digging, more a small bore-hole into Pandora’s Box.' J. Johnson Smith, poetryparc

• A Burial of SightBlood ChildFullTideMainline RailDusk TownArne’s ProgressCrossing OverSt James’s InfirmaryPhilharmonicCortegeSheenMagnoliaBecoming MiniatureIn My Ears and in My EyesTopologyBird Men of the Far HillSeal SkinThe Cruel MotherBlue Black