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No Map Could Show Them confirms Helen Mort’s position as one of the finest young poets at work today

Slant Light A Herring Famine With this knowledge of griefIn her first full length collection, Sarah Westcott immerses the human self in the natural world, giving voice to a remarkable range of flora and fauna so often silenced or unheard. Here, the voiceless speaks, laments and sings from the fresh voice of a spring wood to a colony of bats or a grove of ancient sequioa trees. Unafraid of using scientific language and teamed with a clear eye, Westcotts poems are drawn directly from the natural world,