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’.







I Speak For The Devil
Art of Seamus Heaney
Spiritlands
Centres of Cataclysm
Chameleon
Green Eggs and Ham
Places of Poetry
Rake
There Are Girls Like Lions
Snaring Heaven
A Colomber in the House of Poesy
Christmas Crackers: Ten Poems to Surprise and Delight
What Rhymes with Sneeze?
Over the Moon
Maps and Love Songs for Mina Loy