Winner of the Straid Award, Malone's debut collection, published by Templar Poetry in 2011.
 
"Martin Malone's debut is breathtakingly assured - a rich, attractively male excavation of time, place, landscape and language, every word alert to the elements without and their emotions within."
                                     Carole Ann Duffy
 
"Malone is a Romantic at heart, feeling the landscape, living the language, catching the drift."
                                    Simon Armitage
 
"This is a strong and distinctive voice, with a rare ability to change pace and angle, to surprise the reader."
                                    Michael Symmons Roberts