Sculling by Sophie Dumont Wrecking Ball of resettlement and marriage as

of resettlement and marriage as well as parenthood

As if stepping onstage in the strangest of theatres

Mer de Glace

without healalls

Sculling by Sophie Dumont Wrecking Ball of resettlement and marriage asShortlisted for the Jerwood Prize 2026 This is a book of watersheds love, death and rivers and once you slip into its beguiling flow, you dont want it to end. Poised, fecund and inventive, Dumonts poetry speaks to these times with a visceral sense of how it is to navigate fracture, interrogate the unfathomable elements and attempt to live a joined up life Linda France This is writing as sure and complex as the flow of water, weaving its wide