Features "Life Policy."

Set in the West, Russia, Moldova and the Middle East, Katia Kapovich's "Cossacks and Bandits" explores the personal histories of survivors of sociopolitical and economic distress, who are the true modern hero and heroine. In the final reckoning, survival and dignity depend on creative thinking and a leap of the imagination.

Sacco and Vanzetti, the Rosenbergs, and Aileen Wuornos. A witch, a pirate, a slave who poisoned her master. A serial killer, a Quaker, a case of mistaken identity. The earliest to be electrocuted, gassed, and lethally injected; the last to be publicly hanged. In her first book, Habeas Corpus, acclaimed poet Jill McDonough gives us fifty sonnets, each about a legal execution in American history. From four hundred years of documentation she conjures - and honors - a chorus of the dead.The sonnets, headed meticulously by name, date, and place, are poignant with the factual, with words and...

A road poem of the American mid-West, an epic of migration, an examination of borders, and a meteorological tour of the energy crises.

"Strip" reveals the lives of 50's pin-up Bettie page, and hardcore porn stars of the following eras with stunning beauty and poignancy. These poems illuminate the darkest of places as they explore taboo with acute sensitivity from suburbia to cinema screen. These poems are cinematic, visual, hauntingly, beautiful and at times devastating.

"A Brief History of Time," Beers' first collection of poetry, is at once an exploration of what it is to grow up in rural America and a treatise for social justice. These poems, many of them award-winning, span a wide range of styles-from plainsong free verse to sestinas to nearly epic works. The characters/speakers in Beers' poems range from the rural working class to mythological characters. These poems look at the world with an honest, unflinching eye. She is one of the up-and-coming poets from Generation X we will be hearing a great deal from in the future.

Next to Nothing records the years following the death of a beloved child in 2001. Though bereft of belief in the poetic outcome compared to the apocalypse of the loss itself (one sense of the title), the fidelity of these poems to the heartscapes of grief constitutes, nonetheless, a work of genuine honouring - spare, delicate, and deeply moving.

A combination of verse and prose poetry. This work is sequel to "The Harbour Beyond the Movie".

'Sills' gathers together poems from four of O'Brien's early books and combines them with later work, forming a selection from 1960-1999.

From the depths of longing to the London Bombings "Recital" offers a poet's journey looking at our world over the space of a year. Taking the lunar cycle as its central theme, Siddique's book surveys our doubts, desires and dislocations and unites us in a celebration of love.