Beyond Our Means: Poetry, Prose and Blue Runes

In this diverse, thoughtful and unusual new collection of poetry, prose, and 'reading the blue runes' of a beautiful-but-broken world, Simon Barrow explores themes ranging from love, loss, friendship and death to re-engagement with the natural environment, art as embodiment, the poetic form itself and (against the cacophony of our digital age) music. The 44 new poems in this volume are both deeply personal and invitingly universal. They are accompanied by prose reflections. The whole collec...