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For high school students of all abilities, Secret Writing begins with the word game of Hangman and goes on to discuss: grammar and codes; the linguistic structure of secret codes; the five basic conventions of English and how they relate to codes; the surprising sense of nonsense; a brief history of our punctuation; what foreign languages tell us about English; the importance and uses of context; "difficult" literature (Paradise Lost, Ulysses, and The Canterbury Tales) treated as codes to crack; deciphering contemporary poetry; and much more. Sears also provides 200 thinking and writing...

Small Talk gathers poems from Peter Sears's eight previous collections, and adds thirty entirely new poems. The many admirers of his poetry will be delighted to find so many old friends back in print and under a single cover. Eclectic, comic, disarming, deadly, and ever fresh and surprising, these poems offer a feast of necessary delights.