When The Swimming Pool Fell In The Sea

“In this totally absorbing and moving collection, Carole Coates uses language as both reincarnation and elegy in a visceral exploration of illness, bereavement and widowhood. Her poems are a brave and beautiful confrontation with loss which triumph in a lyric addition to the world”. 
– Carol Ann Duffy Carole Coates has published four full collections and one pamphlet with Shoestring Press and another pamphlet with Wayleave Press. A late starter in poetry, she is particularly noted for her ability to blend narrative and lyric.