A major selection from Monk's work, including a significant choice from Interregnum, here combined with new sequences not previously published. This is a substantial volume from a key British writer whose approachable experimental works are filled with wit, linguistic virtuosity and a sound grasp of the shifting realities of the worlds we live in.

A collection of poems which shifts and veers into unexpected complexity. It brings together disparate strands of uncertainty in a fragile world with tenderness, ferocity and humor.

Geraldine Monk is one of Britain's foremost contemporary poets. This new collection from features the controversial A Nocturnall Upon St Lucies Day, a newly revised Raccoon and three new sequences: Glow in the Darklunar Calendar, Print & Pin and Poppyheads.

FREE VERSE EDITIONS Series Editor: Jon Thompson At the heart of THEY WHO SAW THE DEEP is the nature of water; water as giver and taker of life, luxuriant and lethal in equal measures. From the Libyan Sea to the savage sands of Morecambe Bay to the banks of the River Lune in the north of England where the poet's ancestors were rowed across the river in their coffins to their final resting place. The eponymous sequence of poems finds the poet in the illusory safety of her kitchen whilst the outer world grows increasingly disturbed with wars and wild weather. It is set against the backdrop of...