Counting Backwards: Poems 1975-2017 by Helen Dunmore Jenna Clake  Guardian [on Crossing the

 Guardian [on Crossing the Snowline]

as true poetry should

The real one's much more gory

There is an enjoyably vicious satire of the anodyne non-promises of a conservative party speech

Some of his most famous and often quoted (or misquoted) lines appear in their original form

Counting Backwards: Poems 1975-2017 by Helen Dunmore Jenna Clake  Guardian [on Crossing theWinner 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