Selected Poems by Jamie McKendrick Helen Farish these hard-won poems coalesce into

these hard-won poems coalesce into a moving

Swims cuts a path through Britain's waterways investigating the lasting human effect on nature and nature's unmistakable effect on us

There is something new under the sun on every page

to the changeability of skies and the insistent rhythm and presence of the sea

One is a suite of poems  – sombre

Selected Poems by Jamie McKendrick Helen Farish these hard-won poems coalesce intoPBS Special Commendation Summer 2016 Drawn from thirty years of work, this selection, made by the poet himself, gathers from the best of Jamie McKendrick's six acclaimed collections, including some translations, from 1991's debut The Sirocco Roomto Out There (2012, and winner of the Hawthornden Prize) by way of The Marble Fly (1997), winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection, and Ink Stone, shortlisted for both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the