Gifts the Mole Gave MeGifts the Mole Gave Me is an unearthing of life, a rediscovery of self after loss, and a search for the pleasurable, velvet touch of the moles dark journey. It is a hymn to the wild places; to the sea, the sky and the mind, in which anxieties and griefs flit and hover. The poems explore cycles of repetition, renewed attempts, vicious and virtuous circles again and again, over and over, round and round. Things are tidal; the pull of the moon in your

and a people shape a very special place

or when we no choice but to stay put

She lives in London

They belong to the hawk

If the history of civilisation has been a journey away from our rubbish

His poems and reviews have appeared in PN Review

after further education in creative writing

three poems and a translation of a poem by Zhou Zan

the Caribbean to England

This book celebrates not only the obvious giants like Byron

blending keenly observed dialect with urban theory

Throughout the 1930s