Counting Backwards: Poems 1975-2017 by Helen Dunmore Jenna Clake in the literal sense –

in the literal sense – these are poems we can feel

tender and funny: he tells it how it is

She captures the sadness of seas and writes a love poem to a stegosaurus

The real one's much more gory

yet infused with darker undercurrents and nightmarish imagery

Counting Backwards: Poems 1975-2017 by Helen Dunmore Jenna Clake in the literal sense –Winner 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