Vorest book cover
Award-Winning Literary Debut

Vorest

by Rose Day

Publisher: Crumps Barn Studio

Paperback ISBN: 9781915067791 7 May 2026 198 x 129 (mm)

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Rose Day's work has been recognised with awards including a shortlisting for the Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize and wins for the Remarque Prize and Jane Austen House Museum programme.

We were born into the no more. The no more warm smell of a cattle shed, my grandfather's hands worn and beaten, became withered and pale, his buckets empty, fields aching with emptiness. A stag runs into the forest, along the hedge and into the shadow of branches, carrying with it the trace of a memory.

Time and nature have shaped the Forest of Dean – and the people who call it home. Always changing, this landscape carries the marks of every generation.

Steeped in the scent of moss, Rose Day's debut collection is both a mourning and a celebration of the land, culture and history of the Vorest.