Description
The Ivy Hides the Fig-ripe Duchess is an exhilarating first collection of poems. Using a surrealist palette of imagery and a tightly focused idiom, Ellie Evans takes us on a strange journeys: to the poet-apocalyptic world of the title poem, or into a skeward 18th centuryVenice in ‘The Zograscope’.





John Clare
Spiritlands
The Poet Assassinated and Other Stories
Surrealist Poetry
Is This a Poem?: What makes a poem, and how YOU can write one
Gold from the Stone
The Hundred Years' War
Skirrid Hill
The Christmas Truce
Snaring Heaven
Just Like Brothers
The Genre of Silence