Grey Time

by Julia Webb

Part elegy, part lament, part love song; Julia Webb's fourth collection Grey Time is a powerful examination of what it is to love and lose, of our relationship with both grief and the dead. Exploring the many facets and nuances of loss, Webb explores what happens before and after the sudden death of a loved one and how our relationship with them changes over time as new secrets are revealed and old hurts heal. This book is not defined by death, however, as these refreshing, evocative poems study and witness the myriad losses of a lifetime. Julia Webb turns her forensic eye on the complexity of unresolved relationships; on what is said or not said, how people behave under duress, how violence can creep into our lives, as well as exploring her own recently discovered neurodivergence. Grey Time is a revelatory collection that takes bold leaps, binding the strange and surreal to the everyday – to make possible a place where a one mother turns owl, and another mother will teach her son how to fly.

Genres: Poetry

100 pages, Paperback

Published July 3, 2025

About the author

Julia Webb is a graduate of the University of East Anglia's poetry MA. In 2011 she won The Poetry Society"s Stanza Competition and 2018 she won the Battered Moons poetry competition. She lives in Norwich where she is a poetry editor for Lighthouse and teaches creative writing. Her first collection Bird Sisters was published by Nine Arches Press in 2016. Her second collection Threat was published by Nine Arches in 2019. Her third collection Threat was published in 2022 and her fourth collection Grey Time was published by Nie Arches Press in 2025.