Earth House
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I
1. Causeway 5
2. The Sea Stick 6
3. Beck 8
4. Wastwater 9
5. A White Hart at Sykeside 10
6. All there ever is 12
7. Call 13
8. Stones 14
9. The Long Snow 21
Lone 22

II
1. Anglia 27
2. Iken 28
3. A Harnser for James 29
4. Winterton Ness 32
5. I will lift up my eyes 34
6. Where narrow water widens 36
7. The Island 37
8. Rooks 38
9. The Staithe 41
Deor 42

III
1. The Blackbird of Spitalfields 47
2. The Diomedes 48
3. Commute 49
4. Losing Time 50
5. Animal 52
6. The Collect 54
7. The Fox Runner 56
8. Leaves 57
9. A Bluebird for Rose 67
Wulf 68

IV
1. West 71
2. A Red Hairband in Iveragh 72
3. Cara 74
4. Four Roads 75
5. Landlock 76
6. The Mansion 78
7. Hedge Bird 79
8. Havener 80
9. Headland 89
Ruin 90

Place notes 93

About the Author

Matthew Hollis was born in 1971 in Norwich, and now lives in London. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 1999. He is co-editor of 101 Poems Against War (Faber, 2003) and Strong Words: Modern Poets on Modern Poetry (Bloodaxe Books, 2000), and editor of the Selected Poems of Edward Thomas (Faber, 2011). He is Poetry Editor at Faber & Faber. After its shortlisting for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, his first full-length collection Ground Water (Bloodaxe Books, 2004) was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award (the first time for a poetry book) and for the Whitbread Poetry Award. Ground Water was also a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. His second book-length collection, Earth House, was published by Bloodaxe in 2023 and longlisted for the Laurel Prize 2023. His biography, Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas (Faber, 2011), won the Costa Biography Award, the H.W. Fisher Biography Award and a Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction, and was BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and Sunday Times Biography of the Year. His second "biography", The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem, was published by Faber in 2022. Matthew Hollis was Poetry Editor at Faber from 2012 to 2023.

Reviews

It’s taken Matthew Hollis 19 years to produce a successor to his debut collection, Ground Water, but Earth House was worth the wait. Well-nigh elemental in their evocation of time and landscape, the poems can have the effect of making their human protagonists look frail, marginal visitants to an indifferent world. At other times, particularly when Hollis returns to his native East Anglia, they are consummate exercises in psychogeography, where, however ancient the terrain, the people lead the dance.
*The Tablet (Summer Reading)*

Some poets take their time. Matthew Hollis’s second collection Earth House arrives this week 19 full years after his acclaimed debut Ground Water. In the meantime, Hollis has written a well received biography of Edward Thomas, whose poetry is a marked influence on his own. Like Thomas, Hollis writes with an unsentimental love of the natural world, in poems where landscapes he knows well are charged with a personal significance that’s often only hinted at.
*The Daily Telegraph (Poem of the Week)*

Matthew Hollis’s Earth House is concerned with the ways our environment both roots and unroots us. Tied to the language, histories and ecology of Ireland and Britain, it is an elemental and expansive collection that builds from death to the birth of new life … If there is transcendence here it is to be found in the attention to the world around us, its nuance and fragility and our intimate connection to it, the 'cleft between the chassis and the sea'.
*The Tablet*

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