Product Description: This collection encompasses a striking variety of subjects. Sail reflects on detail in the natural world, both in micro- and macrocosms, looking, for example, at flowers, birds, the sea, and the earth seen from space; he explores the intricacies and balances of love and family relationships; he finds new resonances in the paintings of David Bomberg, Howard Hodgkin, and Paul Klee, and affinities in his translations of Mallarme, Rilke, and Trakl...read more

Product Description: Lawrence Sail's poems balance dream and history, delight and unease: they weigh the art of the possible against the encroachment of time. This substantial retrospective covers work written over four decades. The new poems continue to explore Sail's characteristic themes-the border country between belief and doubt, the interplay of memory and imagination, the possibilities of art, and the context of silence-and they do so with a fresh inwardness...read more

A collection of sixty-four poems about food from four Devon based poets. This work features poems such as 'Alphabet Soup'; 'Elvers'; 'Eating Maize'; 'The Meat Commission'; 'Mushy Peas'; 'Stuffing Balls'; 'Curried Squirrel'; 'The Hostess Trolley'; 'Feeding the Dolls'; and others.

Bears witness to the powers of perception, whether in terms of the observing, and reflecting, human eye, the camera lens or the mind's eye of imagination and memory. This book features poems, which meditate on the links between sight and insight, covering points on the journey from childhood to old age.

Product Description: Cross Currents contains forty-two essays written for Poetry Nation Review at the invitation of its editor, Michael Schmidt, and published in the magazine as an unbroken series between 1995 and 2003. Some of them chronicle events and issues relating to those years: all have poetry at their centre, while covering a wide range of other subjects...read more

Product Description: 'The World Returning' begins in an empty theatre and ends in the tomb of Tutankhamun. Between these thresholds, Lawrence Sail's new collection ranges from vivid memories of childhood and 'the oncoming past' to poems on subjects as diverse as the painting of Alfred Wallis, an Indian journey, a stag beetle, and the theme of silence...read more

Presents one hundred new riddles by contemporary English poets, inspired by the riddles in the medieval 'Exeter Book,' and describing both items that would not be out of place in the original work, and others of modern origin. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The unifying themes of Building into Air are the human search for home, and the sense of striving which Lawrence Sail finds in `the bright attempt to build / the city's simulacrum into high air'. Its opening sequence is primarily a response to three unnamed English cities, but also takes in broader historical and geographical contexts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Fastidious, pleasurable, wittily evocative poems"" - TLS. ""A wonderful confidence with metaphor, rhythm and timing"" - Listener.