To 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, Helen Dunmore's tenth and
final poetry book, was her first since The Malarkey (2012), whose
title-poem won the National Poetry Competition. Her final poem,
'Hold out your arms', written shortly before her death and not
included in the first printing of Inside the Wave, was added to all
subsequent printings. Her posthumous retrospective, Counting
Backwards: Poems 1975-2017 (2019), covers ten collections she
published over four decades up to and including Inside the Wave.
Costa Book of the Year 2017, winner of the 2017 Costa Poetry Award
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