Eleanor Rees' Eyes in the Wood: Occasional Prose is a meditative and exploratory collection that considers poetry as a situated, permeable practice grounded in place, ecology, and attention. Moving between reflective essay, lyric fragment, and critical enquiry, Rees develops a poetics that is both relational and speculative, drawing on lived experience, myth, and ecological thought. Her prose resists academic fixity, favouring instead a dynamic, processual mode of thinking that unfolds through landscape, memory, and sensory perception. The result is a richly textured work that approaches language as a means of encounter-open-ended, affective, and materially bound.