Counting Backwards: Poems 1975-2017 by Helen Dunmore Jenna Clake Clarice has used her gifts

Clarice has used her gifts to raise herself from the urban Jamaican ghetto

in the literal sense – these are poems we can feel

 Guardian [on Crossing the Snowline]

tender and funny: he tells it how it is

Counting Backwards: Poems 1975-2017 by Helen Dunmore Jenna Clake Clarice has used her giftsWinner of the Costa Book of the Year for her final collection, Inside the Wave, Helen Dunmore was as spellbinding a storyteller in her poetry as in her prose. Many of her haunting narratives draw us into darkness, engaging our fears and hopes in poetry of rare luminosity, while all her poetry also casts a bright, revealing light on the living world, by land and sea, on love, longing and loss. Counting Backwards is a retrospective covering ten