Inside the Wave by Helen Dunmore In Search of Dustie-Fute ‘Village Maternity’ and ‘Death of

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a forthright and intimately observed narrative of Nichols’s partner as a trans teenager in an unwitting decade

—Iain Brinton

In personal terms

Inside the Wave by Helen Dunmore In Search of Dustie-Fute ‘Village Maternity’ and ‘Death ofTo be alive is to be inside the wave, always travelling until it breaks and is gone. These poems are concerned with the borderline between the living and the dead the underworld and the human living world and the exquisitely intense being of both. They possess a spare, eloquent lyricism as they explore the bliss and anguish of the voyage. Inside the Wave is Helen Dunmores first new poetry book since The Malarkey (2012), whose title poem won the