Selected Poems by Shetland-based poet and artist Jen Hadfield gathers together work from her early collections Almanacs (2005) and Nigh-No-Place (2008, and for which she became the youngest-ever winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize), and her Picador collections Byssus (2014) and The Stone Age, winner of the 2021 Highland Book Prize. Hadfield is a highly respected poet of the natural world whose wide-ranging creativity is inextricably linked with the Scottish island of Shetland, where she lives, its rich dialect and rugged landscape infusing her vivid and unpredictable image-making. Publication will follow on from the poet s debut prose work, Storm Pegs: on Shetland (also Picador, 2024), and will stand not only as a consolidation of her achievement in poetry, but also as a companion volume to her captivating essays on the community life and landscape of her island home.

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