Greencombe (Hazel Press, 2024)
Written in twenty-nine parts, Greencombe is a meditation on a woodland garden of mazy paths, tucked below the north slopes of Porlock Hill on Exmoor.
Greencombe was on the London Review Bookshop’s bestseller list and was their book of the week.
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Rootstalk (Hazel Press, 2020)
Rootstalk is written in five voices, some drawn from myth, others from historical accounts. The lives of these characters are shaped by the Ghost Orchid (Epipogium aphyllum), one of the rarest wild orchids, which spends most of its life underground and flowers once every decade or so. In Rootstalk, the Ghost Orchid becomes the point of fascination and search, of longing, loss and reconciliation.
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Praise for Rootstalk
“Ella Duffy’s pamphlet Rootstalk is a dark ghostly marvel, a short and thoroughly captivating account of the rare Ghost Orchid, blooming once per decade and bringing with it a chorus of strange voices, mythic or historic, insistent + longing.” – Juliano Zaffino
“… the pamphlet has a dramatic quality that I can imagine being performed as theatre… Duffy might be a relatively new poet but she writes with the kind of verve and intelligence that heralds an exciting poetic future.” – Dzifa Benson
Awards
Shortlisted for the Rubery Book Award 2021
Shortlisted for the Saboteur Award 2021
Longlisted as a Poetry School Book of the Year 2020
“… the pamphlet has a dramatic quality that I can imagine being performed as theatre… Duffy might be a relatively new poet but she writes with the kind of verve and intelligence that heralds an exciting poetic future.” – Dzifa Benson
New Hunger (The Poetry Business, 2020)
New Hunger weaves mythology and biology together through subtle poems that link our human bodies to the natural world in both celebration and anxiety as our familiar spaces shift dangerously around us.
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Praise for New Hunger
‘Confident and bold poems, unafraid to tackle poetry’s big themes of nature or mythology, but always knowing to ground themselves in the body, or in an utterly precise and perfect image. Thrilling stuff!’ – Andrew McMillan
‘New Hunger is a vivid and intimate collection, one which explores a nascent queerness, new love, and tenderly draws its finest inspirations from the bounty of the natural world.’ – Mary Jean Chan
‘Ella Duffy’s ‘New Hunger’ is a gorgeous pamphlet, bright with transformation, both in its rich and varied metaphor, and its physical metamorphoses. These are poems that also translate the world into kindness. If “loneliness is intimacy told backwards”, then these poems telegraph across the cold distances with empathy and love. Erotic, startling, grief-ridden but hopeful, you will find these poems “hooked […] under your heart”; this pamphlet offers a rich and rewarding imaginative world, and I cannot wait to read Ella Duffy’s first collection.’ – Fiona Benson
‘Carefully crafted like precious jewels, these debut pamphlet poems are a delight.’ – Kate Noakes, London Grip
Seeds & Roots (Hazel Press, 2022)
The germination of a seed is not a quiet event. It is a swelling, a splitting, an eruption. At a time when so many are working to rebalance seed sovereignty and poets are writing with radical energy about the earth, Seeds & Roots is an essential addition to our ways of valuing, seeing, and noticing.
Seeds & Roots is a botanical anthology of 24 poems which allow us to feel, look, and think again about seeds and roots: with birds, soil and breezes as the first gardeners and farmers.
Featuring poems from Alice Oswald, Camille T. Dungy, Isabel Galleymore, Jen Hadfield, , Oliver Baez Bendorf, and more.
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