Counting Backwards: Poems 1975-2017 by Helen Dunmore Doris Kareva and the title poem) show

and the title poem) show the preoccupation with death and transience that is so typical of the poet

Is nowhere a place we can get closer to

Then he spent half a century trying to get up to speed with Proust's great novel in two different languages

’ – John McAuliffe

Counting Backwards: Poems 1975-2017 by Helen Dunmore Doris Kareva and the title poem) showWinner of the Costa Book of the Year for her final collection, Inside the Wave, Helen Dunmore was as spellbinding a storyteller in her poetry as in her prose. Many of her haunting narratives draw us into darkness, engaging our fears and hopes in poetry of rare luminosity, while all her poetry also casts a bright, revealing light on the living world, by land and sea, on love, longing and loss. Counting Backwards is a retrospective covering ten