The High Window

James W. Wood is a talent to be reckoned with: both lyrical and humane, he has a technical ability with language that shines through every poem. Jane McKie, founding editor, Knucker Press James W...

Alice Allen spent her formative years in Jersey, and her poems are imbued with its landscape, language and people. The particular focus of Daylight of Seagulls is the occupation of the island during...

A welcome full first collection from Alison Mace. Poems about family relationships, and by implication love and loss, are delicately and minutely observed and felt. She writes fearlessly on ageing...

Anthony Howell is a poet and novelist whose first collection of poems, Inside the Castle was brought out in 1969. A former dancer with the Royal Ballet, he is also a performance artist. In 1986 his...

Michael Lesher's Surfaces is a celebration of what might be called the central paradox of poetry: that every attempt to plumb the depths of lived experience must begin, and end, in the impenetrable...

True poetry has the intellectual and formal rigour to tell us stories of the way we live. In Tim O?Leary's Manganese Tears, there are wonderful elegies for the village community og the poet's...

In ?West South North, North South East?, Daniel Bennett envisages landscapes of decay; urban Britain as a ruined, post-apocalyptic wasteland, haunted by its past, at odds with its present, fearful of...