The poems and prose poems in Anonymous Intruder navigate the vulnerabilities revealed in relationships, only to abandon these in a wandering search for new encounters and new truths. The seeking 'self' goes into exile to be shattered and reconstructed. In a hesitant movement towards the transcendental, the poems consider the possibility and impossibility of returning home. They must first find a way to recognise the stranger approaching from a distance. Although these narratives are fragmented and elliptical, the imagery is stark and clear, the language concise, the rhythms and patterns...

Witha fragmented yet rich lyricism, 'Shifting Registers' crosses bordersbetween lost and rediscoveredidentity.The voices in the poems may be tentative and vulnerable, regretfuland haunting, or playful and provocative, as they relive and re-imaginehalf-remembered journeys and encounters. That which has become strange through its distance in the pastbecomes once again familiar, whilethat which isnearin the presentbegins tobeunknowable. Shifting Registers seeks to reconcile the two, and to construct a wholeness for the future, yet without resort to easy answers or false resolution. Throughout,...

With a sparse, haunting, often playful lyricism, the makers of empty dreams emerge like figures in the reels of an old, almost abandoned film. Their stories, often set in different countries which we may or may not know, tell of loss and estrangement, of betrayal and reconciliation, and of a search for the possibilities of renewal along the way.