Ivy Hides the Fig-Ripe Duchess, The

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The Ivy Hides the Fig-ripe Duchess is an exhilarating first collection of poems. Using a surrealist palette of imagery and a tightly focused idiom, Ellie Evans takes us on a strange journey: to the poet-apocalyptic world of the title poem, or into a skeward 18th century Venice in ‘The Zograscope’.