Woven Paths is Elena Brake’s debut collection, bringing together poems that move easily between the technical and the everyday. Elena writes as both poet and engineer-in-training, finding lyric detail in steel, water systems, looms and swing-beams, as well as in childhood memories of Axminster and walks through the South West.
These poems notice how things hold together, how they break, and how memory and place thread through both. Woven Paths invites you to step into the crossings between the built and natural world, to hear the beauty in the language of mechanics, and to follow where the paths might lead.