Description
Rebecca Hurst’s first collection bridges memory and observation, noting the detail of the natural world and our changing relation to it. The book’s places are made familiar by walking. It encounters other worlds alive with new and recovered ideas and images – from the folk traditions of her Sussex childhood, to archival encounters with a nineteenth-century nurse-explorer, and her undergraduate training as a Kremlinologist. Her language is deeply rooted, as keenly aware of etymologies as of history. Shaped by myth, history and desire, the poems of The Iron Bridge are theatrical, fierce, music-infused.
Frost Fair 
Mrs Scrooge 
Signs Like This 
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova 
New and Selected Poems, Volume Two 
Six Vowels and Twenty Three Consonants: An Anthology of Persian Poetry from Ruda 
Fairoz 
The Estuary 
Then Come Back 
This Is Yarrow 
Selected Poetry 
Swansea Automatic