Released August 31st, 2025 // 86 pages // 978-1-917617-28-4 // RRP: £12.99 / $17.99 / €15.99
 
Eleanor Rees’ Eyes in the Wood: Occasional Prose is a meditative and exploratory collection that considers poetry as a situated, permeable practice grounded in place, ecology, and attention. Moving between reflective essay, lyric fragment, and critical enquiry, Rees develops a poetics that is both relational and speculative, drawing on lived experience, myth, and ecological thought. Her prose resists academic fixity, favouring instead a dynamic, processual mode of thinking that unfolds through landscape, memory, and sensory perception. The result is a richly textured work that approaches language as a means of encounter—open-ended, affective, and materially bound.
 
ABOUT Eleanor Rees:
Eleanor Rees is the author of Portents and Portals: New & Selected Poems (Guillemot, 2024), and five collections of poetry including Andraste’s Hair, shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Eleanor is the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award, Northern Writers’ Award and her poems have been translated into Lithuanian, Slovak, French, German, Romanian and Spanish (Versopolis, 2016, 2019, 2024). She is a senior lecturer in creative writing at Liverpool Hope University and lives on the Wirral peninsula, UK.