Books by Lucy Newlyn

A wonderfully accessible handbook to the art of writing and reading poetry-itself written entirely in verse

Not a self-help guide but a candid, confessional memoir about mental illness that intersperses poetry and prose

Lucy Newlyn adapts the tradition of the 'Shepherd's Calendar' to the phases of grief, condensing a long process of reflection and remembering into the passage of a single year. In these intense expressions of love and loss, anger and guilt, there is no smooth path towards consolation.