Rain NoiseElle Heedles's debut poetry collection, Rain Noise, shows there is no world apart from the way we feel about it there is only the feeling world in which hope and rain both dribble through gravity as equals, and apricots and forgiveness are equally juicy. Heedless poems are tuned to the strange, soundless music of everything, to the way things harmonize and ache, both sonic and supersonic, beyond us and within us. Here, the wind is in consort with ones

the way rain is mainly wet noise

the grip she has on it and this strangely organic connection she has to it

The poems land with a kind of gentle

∙ A Sunday Times poetry book of the year

Nowell's compound of influences has the unmistakable distinctness of an independent mind

It is clear enough to come vividly to life in the mind's eye while at the same time cryptic enough to create countless different stories in different heads

and utterly compelling

cooling tenderness

and Eliza Tewson of Lucy Mercer’s Emblem

soundless music of everything

Clara-Læïla Laudette

Katie Hartsock