Wading into the Light by Mel McEvoy Christel Wiinblad Winner of the T S

Winner of the T S Eliot Prize 2022

much only recently uncovered

She is also the editor of the anthologies The Emergency Poet: an Anti-Stress Poetry Anthology and The Everyday Poet: Poems to Live By (both Michael O'Mara Books Ltd)

backgrounds to the material of which The Release is composed

Wading into the Light by Mel McEvoy Christel Wiinblad Winner of the T SMany of these poems resonate with a sense of loss, not morbidly so, but almost as a contradiction where our emptiness can make us capable of compassion. The background music, or the place of origin for this work is always the narrative of emotion. The centrepiece of this collection is a sequence of poems called Sonnets of a Hospital Lift, telling the story of death and dying in a NHS hospital. We write to catch meaning, to shine light on this