No Map Could Show Them Summer Bulletin Life goes on its desultory

Life goes on its desultory way

spilling over with pop-cultural references and exuberant carnality

 Contemporary Writers

under the constellations of aircraft holding patterns

Orpheus and Tithonus appear at the beginning and end of this book

No Map Could Show Them Summer Bulletin Life goes on its desultoryPBS Recommendation Summer 2016 'When we climb alone en corde feminine, we are magicians of the Alps we make the routes we follow disappear' The poems of Helen Mort's second collection offer an unforgettable perspective on the heights we scale and the distances we run, the routes we follow and the paths we make for ourselves. Here are odes to the women who dared to break new ground from Miss Jemima Morrell, a young Victorian woman from Yorkshire who