Beautifully crafted and wildly evocative, Compass Light is a wide-ranging collection that illuminates the dazzling richness of how we perceive time, and how it makes us who and what we are.
Hilary Davies is poet, former Chair of the Poetry Society, a Hawthornden fellow, and an Eric Gregory Award Winner. She was Royal Literary Fund Fellow at King’s College, London 2012–16 and at the British Library 2018–19. She is also a Fellow of the English Association and of the Temenos Academy. In November 2023 she was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Environmental Poet of the Year Award. She has previously published four collections of poetry from Enitharmon and is also a translator, essayist and critic.
