Portents and Portals. New and Selected Poems

by Eleanor Rees

Guillemot Press

Hardback, 2025

292 pages

Eleanor Rees's New & Selected Poems gathers together a body of work spanning three decades, five collections and several pamphlets, along with a new sequence Five Breaths. It follows Tam Lin of the Winter Park (Guillemot, 2022), 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. Eleanor is the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award and a Northern Writers’ Award, and she is a senior lecturer at Liverpool Hope University.

Praise for Eleanor’s work:

These are poems written in a state of grace, trusting in the infinite wisdom of the universe. And Rees gives us hope that all manner of things shall be well in the end, if we are only able to shift our vision. - Rosi Braidotti

This poet offers the reader new and exact ways of articulating the power of place to mirror human longing, sorrow, and fidelity to emotional purpose. - Penelope Shuttle

…an ambitious, experimental voice vibrantly charged with the energy of city life. - Carol Ann Duffy

Cover art by Rebecca Freeman.