Out on 03 April 2025
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Selected Poems

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03 April 2025
128 pages
9781035032860
Imprint: Picador

Reviews

Hadfield brings sensations to life; subtle and propulsive, her language fizzes and dashes
[Storm Pegs] is a bewitching book, tactile and immersive, riven with salt winds, alive with human oddities and loud with the cries of seabirds. Everything glows in the light of Hadfield’s words, from slimy sea molluscs to grand island vistas.
There are as many creatures as people in Nigh-No-Place, and poems are more like brilliant snapshots than whole, poised works. The writing is all the better for this manifestation of energy . . . Hadfield's refreshing voice carries all the way from the top of Scotland to blow some of the dust off British verse.
There is something magical and incantatory in the way she cherishes language at the level of the name, as if utterance itself might be a way of dwelling in the real and making oneself at home there