Yvonne Reddick has won the Mslexia pamphlet prize with her striking poems, that grapple with the death of a beloved father and a close friend who both died while mountaineering. The spiky language of mountaineering and the craggy syllables of Scottish place names make for poems full of brilliant texture and bite.

Yvonne Reddick has won the Mslexia pamphlet prize with her striking poems, that grapple with the death of a beloved father and a close friend who both died while mountaineering. The spiky language of mountaineering and the craggy syllables of Scottish place names make for poems full of brilliant texture and bite.