Equinox - Softcover

An astounding debut from a poet who spent 27 years working for the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

In her long-awaited debut collection Sheila Wild matches perfect craft with piercing observation. The language is elegant, delicate, but the effect is powerful.

Exquisite images and a considered tone are brought to bear on loss, grief and indignity, on the transience and susceptibilities of life whilst precise and compassionate observation of the natural world is used to great effect. Mature, balanced and humane, this is an exceptional debut.

Sheila Wild campaigned for equal pay and on age issues while working at the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Her poems have been published in a number of journals, including The North, The Rialto, Orbis and MsLexia. Her work has been widely anthologised and she has won several awards, including first (2012) and second (2014) prizes in the Manchester Cathedral Poet of the Year competition, and runner up in the Wigtown Poetry Competition (2013).