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’.







Poems Written Abroad
What Is Poetry?
Macavity's Not There!: A Lift-the-Flap Book (Old Possum's Cats)
Lotus Gatherers
Short Days, Long Shadows