Somewhere else entirely

Ruth Fainlight is one of Britain's most distinguished poets.

She has always drawn on a wide range of subject-matter, yet the arc of her attention has shifted in her later work, the meaning and effect of the passage of time becoming more central and fascinating as she ages.

Written during her 80s, the poems of 'Somewhere Else Entirely' are shadowed by the death of her husband Alan Sillitoe.