In Your Absence is a response to a year of bereavement, a murder and a trial, estrangements, departures and insights. Troubled by ghosts, these poems are ultimately a gift to anyone stranded in the whiteout of loss.

Jill Penny is from a touring theatre and arts background She is a now time served member of the programming and hosting team at The Ted Hughes Arvon Centre, Lumb Bank in West Yorkshire. She lives just below the Pennine Way in the hills above Hebden Bridge, and is studying for an M.A. in Creative Writing at MMU. She is a lifelong reader and writer and has been published in The North, @thepoetrykit, various anthologies and The Guardian.