Counting Backwards: Poems 1975-2017 by Helen Dunmore Doris Kareva we are left with a

we are left with a renewed awareness of the mystery at the core of existence

Scots and continental traditions

’ – John McAuliffe

Sextus Propertius

Counting Backwards: Poems 1975-2017 by Helen Dunmore Doris Kareva we are left with aWinner 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