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What the Deep Water Knows

Miranda Cowley Heller

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English
Penguin
29 July 2025
From the author of Women's Prize 2022 longlisted novel THE PAPER PALACE comes a beautiful work of poetry looking sequentially at childhood, motherhood, marriage, divorce and mortality.

WHAT THE DEEP WATER KNOWS is the debut poetry collection from bestselling author Miranda Cowley Heller, a series of exquisite reflections on love in all its seasons.

In poetry that is quick-witted and lyrical, gentle and devastatingly frank, Cowley Heller contemplates time, marriage, and motherhood, and paints a moving portrait of a rich life.
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Imprint:   Penguin
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 197mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 10mm
Weight:   133g
ISBN:   9781405975261
ISBN 10:   1405975261
Pages:   144
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming

Miranda Cowley Heller was raised in New York City and Cape Cod. Her debut novel The Paper Palace was a number one New York Times bestseller in the US, a Sunday Times bestseller in the UK and was longlisted for the Women's Prize. This is her first collection of poetry.

Reviews for What the Deep Water Knows

A breathtaking collection… These poems map a woman’s life with extraordinary precision and skill. Heartbreaking, funny, poignant, hopeful – this is poetry that you didn’t know you needed but will change the way you see the world -- Daisy Goodwin How I loved this. A collection of poems that manages to capture a woman’s life in its entirety with all its joy, mystery and harsh unexpected endings. What the Deep Waters Know broke my heart and healed it too. Fans of The Paper Palace will adore it. -- Clare Leslie Hall Miranda’s poems are living breathing words that are raw, honest and thought provoking. Reading this collection felt like a key turning a tiny hidden lock within. Her poems are brilliant and intentional, you will no doubt come back to these pages time and time again -- Jessica Urlichs, The Sunday Times bestselling author of Beautiful Chaos


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