Tam Lin of the Winter Park is a collection of posthuman lyric poems which emerge from writing in situ in an urban parkland in Liverpool, as well as on the shores of the river Mersey, the Wirral peninsula and Ynys Mon (Isle of Anglesey). The poems expand into the otherworld beyond the walled garden and the shadows of the park’s secluded groves, into sea salt and river mud as the poet is transformed by these encounters with an animate world.

Tam Lin of the Winter Park is Eleanor Rees’s fifth poetry collection, following The Well at Winter Solstice (Salt, 2019), Blood Child (Pavilion, 2015), Eliza and the Bear (Salt, 2009), and Andraste’s Hair (Salt, 2007), which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. She is the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award, an Irish Glen Dimplex New Writers’ Award and a Northern Writers’ Award, and a senior lecturer at Liverpool Hope University.

ISBN 978-1-913749-23-1 / 104 pages / 184 x 140mm / made with Arena and Tintoretto Ceylon papers and Toile Ocean book cloth. The book cloth is made from recycled ocean plastics.
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