Image: Rebecca Freeman. Design: Guillemot Press
Review of Portents and Portals: New and Selected Poems in Under the Radar Magazine.
‘These poems remind me of the importance of sticking with your weirdness… going as far as you can and then further with style and in expansiveness… To be braver, stranger…’
– Caleb Parkin
Eyes in the Wood: Occasional Prose
Eleanor Rees – Eyes in the Wood | Broken Sleep Books
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.
Book Launch
Saturday 12 April / 2–4 pm / Open Eye Gallery / free, RSVP
Eleanor Rees reads live from her new Portent and Portals: New and Selected Poems, a book which gathers a body of work written over three decades exploring post-industrial edgelands, cityscapes, parks and gardens, estuaries and shorelines, margins and peripheries, real and otherworlds. Drawing from five collections, out-of-print pamphlets and presenting new poems written with the Wirral peninsula, the selection also includes many collaborations, commissioned and participatory poems emerging from her ongoing practice as a local poet responding to place and communities with vivid imagination and poetic craft. Rees will be joined by Luke Thompson, editor, writer and publisher from Guillemot Press, Cornwall who will give an insight into small press publishing and creative book design followed by a Q&A hosted by Dr Pauline Rowe to explore the significance of Selected poems in a writing life of a poet, the editorial process and the broader themes alive in Rees’s poetry.
Portents and Portals: New and Selected Poems
Eleanor is excited to announce the launch of her Portent and Portals: New and Selected Poems published by Guillemot Press.
The book brings together poems from three decades of writing alongside a sequence of new poems.
Cover art by Rebecca Freeman.
ISBN 978-1-913749-65-1 / 292 pages / 184 x 140mm / made with Arena, Sirio Flamingo and Wibalin Stria Old Gold papers
Collection
‘Quarried Stone’ in Poetry Wales
Eleanor has a new poem in the summer issue of Poetry Wales. She enjoyed going to Cardiff in August for the Poetry Wales summer issue launch at Tiger Bay Poetry at the Coal Exchange! For more on the issue here
Review for Poetry Wales
Eleanor had the pleasure of reviewing poetry collections by Patrick Jones, Ian Duhig, and Parwana Fayyaz for Poetry Wales.
Three New Poems in Raceme Magazine
Eleanor is pleased publish three new poems in the new issue magazine Raceme. See here for Issue 13
Tam Lin of the Winter Park
Eleanor has published her fifth poetry collection with the wonderful Guillemot Press. Check back here for further readings and events in the autumn. For now, see Eleanor Rees – Tam Lin of the Winter Park — Guillemot Press to get your copy of this elegant publication.
Three new poems in The White Review
Eleanor is pleased to publish three poems in The White Review. All three poems were written shortly before the first lockdown in 2020.
New Poems in Gutter Magazine
‘Woods in Late Summer’ and’ Wind-thrown’ have been published in the wonderful Gutter Magazine, a journal of new Scottish and international writing published in Glasgow.
Two new poems in The London Magazine (Winter 2021).
Eleanor is pleased to have published ‘Tam Lin of the Winter Park’ and ‘On coming in from the Cold’ in the atmospheric winter issue of The London Magazine.