"Netting the Sun" brings together the contents of Phoebe Hesketh's ten poetry collections, along with a selection of new poems. As a lifetime's work, it amply confirms Anne Stevenson's assessment of her as 'one of England's strongest and most genuine
U. A. Fanthorpe was that rarest of literary beings, a poet who was hugely popular with the general public and at the same time very seriously regarded by fellow poets and literary critics for her originality, wit and humanity.