How Running Is considers the erotics of running and how it feels to live and move in a body. A study of repetition and metaphor, the sequence is interested in the body as an emblem of constraint and freedom – two principles between which poetry oscillates. These prose poems are experiments in the forward momentum of the sentence, alert to the intimacies of embodied experience and invested in questions of energy, pacing, and sensation.

These dazzling pieces are provocations, meditations, invitations to look again. Each vignette is charged with the everyday-profound, the miraculous, inevitable feeling that putting one foot in front of another gives us

Helen Mort

Suzannah V. Evans is the author of Brightwork and Marine Objects / Some Language, and editor of All Keyboards are Legitimate: Versions of Jules Laforgue (all from Guillemot Press). Her debut Bloomsbury Poetry collection Under the Blue was shortlisted for the 2026 International Dylan Thomas Prize. A chapter of her work appears in Carcanet’s New Poetries VIII, and she has been awarded the Ivan Juritz Prize and a Northern Writers’ Award. Recent poems feature in The Observer, Literary Review, Poetry London, and New Statesman.

Cover art is a detail from artwork by Sana Bansal

Author photo Naomi Woddis

ISBN 978-1-913749-76-7 / 24 pages / 190 × 140mm / made with Gmund Gold, Colorplan and Arena papers.
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