Beneath the Rime

"Beneath the Rime" is Sriol Troup's second collection of poems. Rooted in real and imagined landscapes, the poems in this volume 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 - and negotiate our survival - in a troubling world where 'our tracks once told us where we were' but which now seems, at times, no more than a 'shudder on the horizon'.