The Iron Bridge

Rebecca Hurst´s first collection bridges memory and observation, noting the detail of the natural world and our changing relation to it. The book´s places are made familiar by walking. It encounters other worlds alive with new and recovered ideas and images – from the folk traditions of her Sussex childhood, to archival encounters with a nineteenth-century nurse-explorer, and her undergraduate training as a Kremlinologist. Her language is deeply rooted, as keenly aware of etymologies as of history. Shaped by myth, history and desire, the poems of ?The Iron Bridge are theatrical, fierce, music-infused.