Dark Green by Emily Hunt

For international orders, please visit our distributor, here. In her first collection of poetry, Emily Hunt inverts the ordinary: How to bring a new figure close / was like taking a globe, turning it once / and placing it back on its pedestal. Using spare diction and imagery, Hunt imagines a new world “so close to what the world is like” that the reader might feel like a humble visitor to our planet Earth. Though often elegiac, Dark Green is alive, inviting its readers to deeply sense this poet’s tender and singular investigations.“With incantatory wit, Emily Hunt writes poems that could be stories, or stories that might be poems. Dark Green starts with a farewell, but grows in power, depth and range from page to page; like snowflakes or violins, no two poems are the same, but each displays visual acuity married to a gift from a different fairy, the power to reveal under the reader’s skin vast pools of hitherto untapped emotion. Reading Emily Hunt’s Dark Green one feels things one co