Get Free Shipping on orders over $79
Inside the Wave - Helen Dunmore

Inside the Wave

By: Helen Dunmore

Paperback | 27 April 2017

At a Glance

Paperback


RRP $39.99

$26.99

33%OFF

or 4 interest-free payments of $6.75 with

Ships in 10 to 15 business days

To be alive is to be inside the wave, always travelling until it breaks and is gone. These poems are concerned with the borderline between the living and the dead - the underworld and the human living world - and the exquisitely intense being of both. They possess a spare, eloquent lyricism as they explore the bliss and anguish of the voyage. Inside the Wave, Helen Dunmore's tenth and final poetry book, was her first since The Malarkey (2012), whose title-poem won the National Poetry Competition. Her final poem, 'Hold out your arms', written shortly before her death and not included in the first printing of Inside the Wave, was added to all subsequent printings. Her posthumous retrospective, Counting Backwards: Poems 1975-2017 (2019), covers ten collections she published over four decades up to and including Inside the Wave.
Industry Reviews
We all felt this is a modern classic; a fantastic collection, life-affirming and uplifting. The poems carry powerful messages that speak to all of us. -- Wendy Holden * Chair of Judges, Costa Book of the Year 2017 *
An astonishing set of poems - a final, great achievement. -- Moniza Alvi, Kiran Millwood Hargrave & Nick Wroe * Costa Poetry Award judges *
Inside the Wave shows us not only what it is to be alive, but what it is like to be alive and to be mortal. It is a very special book indeed. -- Moniza Alvi * The Guardian *

More in Poetry By Individual Poets

Same : Poems on love, sisterhood and womanhood - Hannah Rosenberg

RRP $29.99

$24.99

17%
OFF
Love Poems - Rupi Kaur

Hardcover

RRP $35.00

$28.75

18%
OFF
Dropbear : Winner of the 2022 Stella Prize - Evelyn Araluen

RRP $24.99

$21.75

13%
OFF
The Rot - Evelyn Araluen

Paperback

RRP $24.99

$21.75

13%
OFF
Heroes : The myths of the Ancient Greek heroes retold - Stephen Fry
Department of the Vanishing - Johanna Bell

RRP $34.99

$29.99

14%
OFF
Crush, 20th Anniversary Edition : Twentieth Anniversary Edition - Richard Siken
The Iliad : Penguin Classics - Homer

RRP $17.99

$14.99

17%
OFF
Wonderful - Harry Baker

Paperback

$24.20

The Complete Poems of Walt Whitman : Wordsworth Poetry Library - Walt Whitman
The Divine Comedy : Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso - Dante Alighieri

RRP $26.99

$22.99

15%
OFF
The Essential Rumi : New Expanded Edition - Coleman Barks

RRP $32.99

$26.99

18%
OFF
The Odyssey : Penguin Classics - Homer

RRP $24.99

$21.75

13%
OFF
Paradise Lost : Penguin Classics - John Milton

RRP $17.99

$16.75

You Better Be Lightning : Button Poetry - Andrea Gibson
Loves of Our Lives : Poems for hopeful hearts - Josie Balka

RRP $39.99

$31.99

20%
OFF
The Epic of Gilgamesh : Penguin Classics - Andrew George

RRP $26.99

$17.75

34%
OFF
The Odyssey : Bevelled Edge Edition - Homer

RRP $31.95

$21.75

32%
OFF
The Odyssey - Homer

Hardcover

RRP $65.95

$49.75

25%
OFF