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Eleanor Hooker's 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 collection, The Shadow Owner's Companion, is still very much in evidence, and there is a dramatic impulse in the work not...

Irish poet Eleanor Hooker's debut collection of poems is a rich, distinctive and sometimes unsettling book, full of warm presences, but also open to an otherness, at best glimpsed or half-heard but nonetheless real. "If childhood," as the poet herself puts it, "is a persistent whispering on the other side of the door, the poems in this collection attempt to hear that voice and to map out the landscape between the interior childhood world of terror and wonder and the exterior adult world of surreal reflections. An uncanny presence, represented by the Pike, swims freely through those spaces,...