Compass Light by Hilary Davies PRE-ORDER Joe Dunthorne we pass through the balm

we pass through the balm of landscape

Lately we seem to find flowers in unexpected places: sunflowers blooming from club speakers

after the fall of the Western Roman Empire

he refuses to romanticise rural Ireland

Marie Howe’s poetry transforms penetrating observations of everyday life into sacred

Compass Light by Hilary Davies PRE-ORDER Joe Dunthorne we pass through the balmPublished 1st August 2025. Available for pre order. In Compass Light we cross landscapes, unravelling time, discovering how change and journeys become a celebration of a life. Poems move through the points of the compass and across sacred sites, exploring the many different ways in which we live in time and space, and considering how our experience of time is fundamental to meaning in human life. We are carried along through years spent in Greece,