Compass Light by Hilary Davies PRE-ORDER Joe Dunthorne he refuses to romanticise rural

he refuses to romanticise rural Ireland

Lately we seem to find flowers in unexpected places: sunflowers blooming from club speakers

Marie Howe’s poetry transforms penetrating observations of everyday life into sacred

we pass through the balm of landscape

Bloomsbury Poetry

Compass Light by Hilary Davies PRE-ORDER Joe Dunthorne he refuses to romanticise ruralPublished 1st August 2025. Available for pre order. In Compass Light we cross landscapes, unravelling time, discovering how change and journeys become a celebration of a life. Poems move through the points of the compass and across sacred sites, exploring the many different ways in which we live in time and space, and considering how our experience of time is fundamental to meaning in human life. We are carried along through years spent in Greece,