Her poetry casts a bright, revealing light on the living world, by land and sea, on love, longing and loss.
Counting Backwards: Poems 1975-2017 is a retrospective covering ten collections written over four decades, bringing together all the poems she included in her earlier selection, Out of the Blue (2001), with all those from her three later collections, Glad of These Times (2007), The Malarkey (2012) and Inside the Wave (2017), along with fifteen earlier poems.