The naming of hunger

These rich, sensuous poems mark the arrival of a new and inventive voice. Rachael Davey’s pamphlet explores the raw, wrought landscapes of sea and field, guided by a keen ear for the textures and specificities of language. Haunting, erotic, reflective – her writing is attentive to the shifting registers of voice and cadence. Moving between the elemental and the intimate, the poems interrogate human behaviour – both our exploitation of the natural world and our embodiment of it – with clarity and quiet, persuasive force.

Hannah Lowe

Rachael Davey has taken the bucolic and gifted it back to us with its edges crumbling, its bogs plundered, its inhabitants yearning. Yet life also thrives and in this word-perfect, memorable debut we encounter ‘its gathering force’. It was a pleasure to spend time with this beautiful pamphlet.

Rebecca Goss