This collection of poems depicts an individual's perceptions and passions in times of war, and bears witness to the conflicts in the Middle East, 'the clash' between the West and Islam, and the ways in which a person's ideals, passions and language are affected by violent political and religious conflicts.

In Galatea, her first collection, Challenger casts a poet's sensitive eye across the hours of a tumultuous century to create startling poems whose voice - resolute, compassionate, original - both celebrates and mourns the tensions of human nature. Drawing her themes from the Pygmalion myth, Challenger portrays her subjects in trembling poise between action and inaction, consummation and defeat.

Don Share's latest collection, "Squandermania," is a book of poems that are slightly death-haunted and studded with references to marriage and fatherhood, geology and biology.

In her first full-length collection of poetry, Shamshad Khan struts with attitude from the poetic to the polemic; stepping lightly from the satirical to the spiritual. Shamshad's writing is engaging lively and eminently readable, with an awareness of rhythm and the spoken word she manages to present complex subjects using a language that is both subtle and simple.

Twisted, knotted, struck by events and emotions at our historical moment, these Drafts register and produce torques-exaltation and tension, torsion and force, in their symphonic and bantering surges. This book continues the long poem project that Ron Silliman calls "one of the major poetic achievements of our time."

Aaron Fagan's debut collection glitters with contemporary life, from poems on love, travel, cartoons and shopping, sitting alongside lyrics on channel surfing, philosophy and God. Gathering together work from over a decade of writing, Fagan takes us on tour through his metaphoric Garage, the title signaling his musical forbears in punk and electronic music. On our way, through improvisations, trials and errors, we join him in a world where invention and failure are indistinguishable parts of the journey, and Fagan makes the ideal companion, in love with the world and its characters, filled...

Opens with a selection of poems in which the concern for scarcity as a speculative edge first surfaced, and is followed by six sequences arranged in short prose clusters or stanzas, sometimes with verse tail-pieces. Four of these focus directly on trees, under the aspect of addition as a branching diversion rather than a dispersal.

Words Need Love Too represents, perhaps Kamau Brathwaite's most concentrated effort at fashioning a new literary tradition out of the fragmented pieces/rhythms/nation languages that form the New World. The poems in this volume are "dreamstories." It is a harvest of dreams of a new world, cleansed in ancestral blood, loved without reservation by those born into it and with it, so that through it they can shape a new reality, a new desitiny. No other poet, living or dead, makes us participants in, and co-celebrants of the liturgy of the word, like Brathwaite.

The journey author Capildeo describes with ferocity and an ebullient, unexpected sense of fun is also emotional, and she entices the reader into traveling with her.

These are poems which welcome distraction and which seem to have a lasting interest in registering and reproducing a sense of the uncanny. The strategies adopted veer between lyric mannerism and reconstructed second-hand words and, taken together, chart a lazy form of investigative political thinking through the last three decades of the twentieth century.