Beneath the Rime

Beneath the Rime is Siriol Troup's second collection of poems, following Drowning up the Blue End which was published in 2004. Rooted in real and imagined landscapes, the poems in Beneath the Rime explore memory, art and language, asking above all what it is to be human. This new collection finds her adopting voices - human and animal, colloquial and historical - in her search for a 'proper viewing distance' where life's messy fragments fuse together, enabling us to understand our position ...