A 40-year conversation between words and silence lies at the core of Philip Gross's poetry, never more so than in this edgy homage to Estonia, the country of his refugee father’s birth. The shapeshifting monologues of Evi And The Devil draw on folktale, dark humour, the routine atrocities of history...

A 40-year conversation between words and silence lies at the core of Philip Gross's poetry, never more so than in this edgy homage to Estonia, the country of his refugee father’s birth. The shapeshifting monologues of Evi And The Devil draw on folktale, dark humour, the routine atrocities of history and a vivid sense of place.