A Tug of Blue by Eleanor Hooker Will Harris a lonely pensioner holds a

a lonely pensioner holds a tower block fête

– Billy Collins

In ‘this unseen structure written by a ghost’ Yang Lian weaves together lived experience with meditations on time

the first of which was taken on the day when he was born

and ultimately hope – of the wisest and most worldly kind

A Tug of Blue by Eleanor Hooker Will Harris a lonely pensioner holds aEleanor Hookers second collection of poems sees her move increasingly beyond the confines of home into a more profound relationship with the elements. Images of house and home besieged by storms (Rain pushes under slates and spits on the floor) open into poems where the poet discovers new versions of herself in the mirror of lake water, in the reflections language makes possible, if not inevitable. The haunting and haunted atmosphere of her first