Poetry Editor, Matthew Hollis, commented:

‘Reading Camille Ralphs’s poems has been that most miraculous of experiences: discovering a heart and a head serving not as separate entities but as a precious compound – to echo a guardian spirit, John Donne, not as the discrete work of body and soul but as the result of their union. Here is a poetry that comprehends the past, but that addresses us in ways that are completely contemporary. It is an honour to welcome Camille to Faber & Faber on the profound strength of this distinctive collection, and in anticipation of all that her writing will go on to encompass and achieve.’

Camille Ralphs (b.1992, Stoke-on-Trent) is a poet, critic and editor. Her poems and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in magazines including the New York Review of Books, the Poetry Review, The Spectator and the London Magazine, and she has released three pamphlets: Malkin (The Emma Press, 2015), which was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award; uplifts & chains (If A Leaf Falls/Glyph Press, 2020); and Daydream College for Bards (Guillemot Press, forthcoming 2023). She writes critically for publications including the Telegraph, the Poetry Review and the Los Angeles Review of Books, produces a regular column for Poetry London and conducts an interview series for Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal. She is Poetry Editor at the Times Literary Supplement.