Of Ochre and Ash Eleanor Hookers third collection of poems lends to her familiar themes of family place and memory a trademark uncanny even otherworldly atmosphere in which the glimpsed the intuited and the halfknown provide a great deal of the interest.The desire to see my home from the other side is a constant but so too is immersion in the moment and indeed the everpresent nearby darkening lake.Eleanor Hookers voice guides her reader through large metaphoric visions and the consolations of ordinary life. This is a collection full of urgent haunted poems with a subtle range of approach they are manyfaceted works reflecting the fragmented strangeness of experience. We face wild gothic moments whose counterweight is the familiar calm or stormy world of the lake she lives beside and the people whose life is shared with hers. Eilan N Chuilleanin Eleanor Hookers poetry has a way of resonating in the reader like secret histories passed down through the generations.