Wading into the Light by Mel McEvoy Christel Wiinblad as well as additional poems

as well as additional poems from two early collections

much only recently uncovered

backgrounds to the material of which The Release is composed

Eliot Prize-shortlisted collections The Blood Choir (2006)

In the title poem the baby says 'Wow'

Wading into the Light by Mel McEvoy Christel Wiinblad as well as additional poemsMany of these poems resonate with a sense of loss, not morbidly so, but almost as a contradiction where our emptiness can make us capable of compassion. The background music, or the place of origin for this work is always the narrative of emotion. The centrepiece of this collection is a sequence of poems called Sonnets of a Hospital Lift, telling the story of death and dying in a NHS hospital. We write to catch meaning, to shine light on this