Counting Backwards: Poems 1975-2017 by Helen Dunmore #valentines The Blue Cat Walks the

The Blue Cat Walks the Earth is the third book in which Frank Reeve has let the Blue Cat out of the bag

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Counting Backwards: Poems 1975-2017 by Helen Dunmore #valentines The Blue Cat Walks theWinner of the Costa Book of the Year for her final collection, Inside the Wave, Helen Dunmore was as spellbinding a storyteller in her poetry as in her prose. Many of her haunting narratives draw us into darkness, engaging our fears and hopes in poetry of rare luminosity, while all her poetry also casts a bright, revealing light on the living world, by land and sea, on love, longing and loss. Counting Backwards is a retrospective covering ten