Crystal

Ellen Cranitch is a poet, lecturer and journalist. Her debut collection, The Immortalist (Templar Press), was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Award for Best First Collection 2018. Her second collection, Crystal, is due from Bloodaxe in 2024. Born in London of Irish parents, Ellen holds an MA in English Literature from Cambridge University and a PhD in Creative Writing (Poetry and Poetics) from the University of St Andrews. She has taught Creative Writing and literature at a number of universities including University College London and Bath Spa. Recent posts include Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Hull where she ran the poetry modules. Her arts journalism has appeared in The Times, New Statesman and The Irish Times and she contributes poetry reviews and interviews to Poetry London and The Poetry Review. She currently works at the City Lit Institute, London, teaching the Masterclass and Advanced Poetry Workshop.

9 Bonnard I
10 Bonnard II
11 Bonnard III
12 C10H15N
13 Words
14 Strickeen
15 Actaeon
16 Metamorphoses
17 Io
18 Uplift
19 Tom
21 Athens I
22 Athens II
23 To Cavafy
24 Revelations
25 Secrets
26 Void
27 Betrayal
28 The Wishing Cup
29 Double Exposure
30 Heston Services
31 The Drive West
32 Kingsley Road
33 The Stars
34 Dan
36 How They Give Back to Me
37 ‘en las multitudes’
38 The Dream
39 Riverside
40 Fife
41 ‘lente currite’
42 ‘Relapse’
43 Bypass
44 Trust
45 Some statistics on relapse
46 The Undertow
47 Reactions
48 Kinship
49 Praed Street
50 Prayer
51 The Beaked Ships
52 To Forget
53 Kryos
54 The Empty Space
55 Church of St Michael and All Angels
56 The Colour of Blood
57 Chez Camille
58 Degrees of Separation
59 Panic Attack
60 Antiphon
61 Tributary
62 The Question of Intention
63 The Parable of the Emerald and Dark Water
65 Theories of addiction
66 Crystall
67 Judgement
70 Definition of enabling
71 Living with Uncertainty
74 Addiction interaction disorder
75 Dissonance
76 Addiction and pleasure
77 ‘Against Hurt’
78 The Ascent
80 Beauty
81 Radical
82 What Held Me
83 If Ever
84 Hope
85 Maple-serrated
86 The Dance
87 Grey
88 April 1794
89 Love
90 December 1574
92 Minerals Gallery, Natural History Museum, London

95 Acknowledgements