Sculling

This is a book of watersheds - love, death and rivers - and once you slip in to its beguiling flow, you don’t want it to end. Poised, fecund and inventive, Dumont’s 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, author of StartlingThis is writing as sure and complex as the flow of water, weaving its wide reflections on the world, on place, on family, on natural processes and the sheer play of language, always with the steady tug of the personal story beneath – Philip Gross, prize-winning poet and author

Sophie Dumont is a poet and copywriter based in Bristol and Bath. Her poetry won the Brian Dempsey Memorial Prize and has appeared in The Rialto, Magma, The Moth, Ink Sweat and Tears and Mslexia among others. Dumont has an MA in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University and has held writing residencies along Bristol Harbourside with Boat Poets and Exeter Quay through Literature Works.