Planet 246

Helle Michelsen
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The Little Hours: New and Selected Poems
by Hilary Llewellyn-Williams

The Little Hours: New and Selected Poems Hilary Llewellyn-Williams

Seren, £12.99

Hilary Llewellyn-Williams’ new collection comes out of a lifetime engaging with poetry, and gives a helpful insight into the sweep of her work. Earlier collections – The Tree Calendar, Book of Shadows, Animaculture, and Greenland – are each represented with a good handful of poems. Among the new pieces is ‘The Little Hours’, a sequence based on the canonical hours of the Church, the progression of liturgy through the cycle of night and day. As title poem it serves to focus the volume.

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About the author

Helle Michelsen is a linguist and a former editor of Planet. She lives near Aberystwyth.