Under the Blue is a breath-taking book. Each page displays the panache of a writer in their element. Suzannah V. Evans brings forensic observation and brave grace to turbulent waters and the infinitesimal rituals of care, and crafts a fierce credo of risk, rescue and radical tenderness -- NANCY CAMPBELL, author of Fifty Words for Snow A marvellous, wrenching collection. Evans hears the world around her like no one else; she paces from beauty to agony and back without missing a step -- NOREEN MASUD, author of A Flat Place An extraordinary and important debut collection, powerfully assured both in its craft and in its purpose, illuminating the dailyness of care for loved ones in a careless world. The mundane and marvellous collide in the daily triumphs, terrors, joys and rage of the communal acts of unpaid care, and the particular doubleness of being a carer with experience of illness, the dual citizenship of the kingdoms of the sick and the temporarily well. Balancing a hypnotically dreamy and filmic vision with a precise and unsentimental lyric voice, this collection gave me the best kind of chills -- POLLY ATKIN, author of The Company of Owls A book of heart-breaking beauty . . . Under the Blue gives you a way of being, touch by touch, scene by scene, amidst the song, turmoil, salt and sweetness -- ANTHONY V. CAPILDEO, Forward Prize-winning author of Measures of Expatriation Under the Blue ventures into new poetic waters to document the lived experience of being a carer. On every page we find a voice thats understated, true and wise. The result is a poetic waterlog buoyed by the rhythms of love -- ISABEL GALLEYMORE, author of Significant Other Under the Blue brims with sheer gladness for the gift of being alive, catching us in the complexity of pleasure and pain that is being bodies in this world. Written with a luminous energy that will keep you turning the pages, these poems are a precious reminder to be thankful for the small details, and to love one another with all gentleness, commitment and care -- PHOEBE POWER, author of Shrines of Upper Austria In electrifying poetic prose, Under the Blue deftly moves through exotic, domestic and pastoral environments rockpools, cowfields, a home in Christmastime that feel imbued with breath. Wind, water and illness flows through these poems -- JOSHUA JONES, Dylan Thomas Prize and Polari Prize-shortlisted author of Local Fires
