Kenneth Pobo's seventh collection of poetry, Booking Rooms in Kuiper Belt, brings the reader from the Earth through the solar system and back with an uproarious lyric tour through otherworldly bodies and the everyday of life on earth. Bejewelled with homages to some of literature's greats and with the beauty of our everyday world, Pobo's collection holds out a consistent loving nod to our world and beyond.

Weaver's collection acts a prolonged meditation on death and the ever-present role it has on living. In these pieces the living play among the dead, reveling in death at times, and perhaps most importantly they search for understanding and meaning in spite of it. From a profoundly personal vantage point of the ways one might come to deal with the presence of death, Weaver explores the sacred and the profane from the viewpoint of those left behind. From Death's laughable brother Certain Death to the construction of a Mausoleum to the quiet moments that we must spend when alone, these are...