Product Description
In this first collection, Matthew Hollis, an editor at Faber, immerses us in the undercurrents of love and loss. His poems are brimming with courage in adversity as well as the promise of renewal, culminating in a powerful sequence about his father's struggle with terminal illness.
About the Author
Mathew Hollis was born in 1971 in Norwich. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 1999, and published a pamphlet The Boy On The Edge Of Happiness. His co-editor of 101 poems Against war (Faber, 2003) and strong words:mordern poets on mordern poetry (Bloodaxe 2000), and works as an editor at Faber & Faber. Ground Water is his first full length collection.