What VanishesWhat Vanishes contains four sections: poems of place and displacement set in such far flung locales as Budapest, Berkeley, Vancouver, Point Pleasant, and the skies above Australia along with Dublin, Ballybunion, Dingle, and Drumcliffe. Poems of love and loss, engagement, alienation, and endurance; poems focused on music and musicians, from blues to bluegrass to punk to jazz; and "found" poems from sources as varied as Diane Arbus, Teilhard de Chardin,

unrequited desire

funny and surreal

and emotional - that threaten to diminish the purview of any fierce

Karolina Pavlova

for their beauty and tenderness

and her second novel was one of five shortlisted in the National Lit

past and present perspectives

Katja Perat

It’s a good thing he’s got the samba groove

glittering threads of thought

Paul Snoek

and portrait poems of greedy politicians