Drizzle Mizzle Downpour Deluge by Stephen Knight Phonewriting Beautifully translated by the poet

Beautifully translated by the poet Sophie Collins

The poems are published in their first edition

fearless and memorable

abandoned on a stony island

Reward for Winter tells that story on three levels: the earthy triumphs and tribulations of a novice smallholder

Drizzle Mizzle Downpour Deluge by Stephen Knight Phonewriting Beautifully translated by the poetI cut the rainfall's fingernails. Taking risks with both form and language, the resonant and echoing poems in Stephen Knights new collection are pitched tenderly and sometimes fiercely against the engulfing tides of grief and separation and dismay. The first collection for eight years from a long admired poet whose work has been twice shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. His poems have that kind of humour that is simply an alternative to a cry of