Listening to the Night by Jane Routh Lila Matsumoto the everyday and the fabulous

the everyday and the fabulous

along with new and unpublished works

the collection showcases Szirtes’ technical virtuosity and presents this leading contemporary poet at his most versatile and engaging

Staying Alive is an international anthology of 500 life-affirming poems fired by belief in the human and the spiritual at a time when much in the world feels unreal

Listening to the Night by Jane Routh Lila Matsumoto the everyday and the fabulousPublished 1st November 2018 Combining vivid, musical writing and acute perception of the natural world, and ranging across land and land art, birds, buildings and bodies, roads, trees and winds, Jane Rouths distinctive poems investigate memory and the changes which overtake us all. In the face of environmental and personal loss Listening to the Night celebrates the moments of resilience that keep mortality at bay.