Shine, Darling

A Poetry Book Society Recommendation
Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection
Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry

'This poet is a bit special. She's exciting, a bit scary and sort of brilliant' Frank Skinner

'She writes with such fecundity and truth I think I shapeshifted' Andrea Arnold

'Shine, Darling is a startling debut, as provocative as it is playful and tender . . . These poems are uncompromising and intelligent, fresh and newly disruptive' Mona Arshi

'Frears's poems are places of feverishness, extra-sensitivity, and suggestion . . . They lightly take your pulse, then ask why it's accelerating' Jack Underwood

'Luminous poems' Kate Simpson, Telegraph