Summer to Summer, Looking – Gill McEvoy
ISBN: 9781788641814
£6.99
Gill McEvoy is a poet who moves through the world with all her senses open. The quality of attention here is profound and pays off in an elegance of phrase and originality of image that makes these poems sing off the page. There is often a playfulness at work in the linguistic dexterity of these pieces, as the poet engages in a car chase with the moon or the flora. fauna and meteorology of October are presented as a weather forecast. There is a connection to land here that is lived and authentic, it is never sentimental, but it brims with hope and generosity even in those moments when we know ‘the longed-for vision’ might never appear.
Author biography
Gill McEvoy is a Hawthornden Fellow. Her first pamphlet, Uncertain Days, (Happenstance Press 2006) earned a special mention in the PBS bulletin. Her third pamphlet, The First Telling, (Happenstance Press 2014) won the 2015 Michael marks Award. She has two full collections from Cinnamon Press: The Plucking Shed, 2010 and Rise, 2013. Also two collections from Hedgehog Press: Are You Listening? 2020, and Selected Poems, 2024. She lives in Devon, where she runs a monthly poetry reading group, and is a regular member of Company of Poets in Totnes. Gill cares deeply about wildlife and works with a group called Bee-wild, planting flowers and shrubs around her village for the benefit of bees and other pollinators, and thereby giving pleasure also to passers-by.