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.
Exit Moonshine 
Strong in the Rain 
Gold from the Stone 
The Sea Migrations 
Luck Is the Hook 
Counting Backwards 
On the Motion and Immobility of Douve 
Newspaper Taxis - Poetry After the Beatles 
This Is Yarrow 
Dog Poems 
Confessional Sonnets