Pleased to read this brief reivew of my latest collection Of Ochre and Ash (Dedalus Press) by Maxwell.

"I have also been reading Eleanor Hooker’s Of Ochre and Ash. I find it easier to start reading a new poet than a new prose writer, I don’t know why, even though I often read poetry with a sense of having my eyes averted in case I don’t ‘get’ it. I had not read any of Hooker’s poetry before, and am particularly drawn to the way water and its associates illuminate—subtly, a gleam from a subdued light—many poems; one links a corpse to a curragh, “a lattice-work of hoops and stringers…once covered in animal hide”. I don’t know why I find it unexpected that a poet is also a member of a search and rescue team, as Hooker is for Lough Derg’s Lifeboat Station, but I do: unexpected and impressive. A bit like her poetry."

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