The New Ghost
The New Ghost: Selected Poems restores to view one of the most distinctive yet neglected voices of early twentieth-century British poetry. Writing at the intersection of Georgian lyricism and Modernist literary culture, Shove developed a singular poetic vision in which the natural world, domestic life and the rhythms of ordinary experience open on to deeper mysteries of spiritual existence, offering a distinctive response to the uncertainties of the modern age.
Despite early critical acclaim and being widely anthologised, Shove gradually withdrew from literary life, leaving behind a substantial body of unpublished work. Bringing together poems from her three collections and previously uncollected material, this volume presents her poetry not as a literary curiosity, but as a living and compelling achievement deserving a place in the story of twentieth-century poetry.