Alongside

By Anne Compton

You can't enter the past -- it's true -- but there are towlines that steady you alongside.
Their unravelling renders tomorrow indistinct. from "Shoreland"
Anne Compton's fourth collection, Alongside, tells an unexpected love story, a celebration of beauty which begins in the mind and wanders out into the garden and back again through the library. It is a story that moves between the wild and the domestic. Beauty, like the figure of the fox that appears and re-appears here, is joyous and elusive, glimpsed and gone. Every poem in the book is a conversation, with other writers, with lovers, with books, and an Island past. A conversation about the way in which the unlived life always walks beside us.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1554552273
• ISBN13: 9781554552276
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.7" x 8.5"