Soul Food Emily Bilman Eliot Prize-shortlisted Annie Freud

Eliot Prize-shortlisted Annie Freud

is a beguiling debut pamphlet with poems centred on a rich mix of themes including Tolstoy’s War and Peace

Claire Crowther is Deputy Editor of Long Poem Magazine and lives in Somerset with her partner

tilted places beyond our immediate reality

Soul Food Emily Bilman Eliot Prize-shortlisted Annie Freud"Soul Food" is a feast of thoughtful poems to stir the mind and feed the spirit. Drawn from many traditions, ranging from Rumi, Kabir and Blake, to Rilke, Emily Dickinson and Paul Celan, this wide ranging selection includes enormously varied work by celebrated contemporary poets such as Jane Hirshfield, Denise Levertov, Thomas Merton and Mary Oliver, as well as by many lesser known writers from all periods and places. The anthology opens with a series