A collection of short stories including the Roman priest who takes his ex-lady friend on a trip round the Vatican supermarket; the squirrel gang of Levenshulme, lamenting the death of their most charismatic member; and, the boy who goes to visit a strangely-ailing talking dog on a market stall.

Features poems that reinvent the pastoral for dark times. This title includes poems that peddle dreams and nightmares, hollow laughter, elegy and joy, and use a spectrum of forms and tones from the prosaic to the metrical, from wry cynicism to high rhetoric.

A meditation on the inner life of common things.

Offers ten stories about a wide range of lives: a mother coping with a mortally injured son after his motorcycle accident; a single father returning from San Francisco and attempting a reconciliation with an estranged sister; and, a young woman trying to provide safe haven to her cousin fleeing a vicious boyfriend.

Can we believe in magic and spells? Can we put our faith in science? A young mother married to a scientist fears for her children's safety as the natural world around her becomes ever more uncertain. Until, that is, she meets a charismatic stranger who seems to offer a different kind of power. But is he a saviour or a frightening danger?

John Keats has come to be regarded as one of the most significant poets of the Romantic movement. His work has had a lasting impact on all those who came after him, especially the Victorians. This book presents a selection of Keats' poetry.

Uses sensual frankness and poetic language, to weave a spell around the reader in Nude. This book features mercurial lovers and illicit affairs from Dublin to Paris, Delhi to Barcelona. And at the centre of it all is the unclothed body: in bedrooms, in art, and in and out of love.

Charts the 21st century journey of Singaporeans as they settle in the cities of New York, Los Angeles, London, Perth and Toronto. This title captures the true urban sophistication of New Asia and the journey of an eclectic people coming to terms with their cultural legacy.

An eclectic gathering of poetry and prose-poems that try to understand what poetry is and who or what it might be for. It is also about what writers might want or demand from poetry, in either a general or personal way.

Features poems that try to replace what is lost, or about to be lost, with the laying down of memory etched with the imagination. At once unflinching, sensual, delicate and elegiac, this title presents poems that inhabit the fluid spaces left between the present and the past.

Features poems that deal with the heart of shame, with parenting, illness, loss, regret and falling in love with the wrong people.

In the hot and hedonistic atmosphere of Toucan Bay, a Caribbean enclave on the planet Kunu Supia, the legendary hustler of bootleg melanin Joe Sambucus Nigra returns from the desert with a price on his head. Waiting for him at the seafront brothel and nightclub Houdini's, are several of his enemies.

A collection of poems in which the author struts with attitude from the poetic to the polemic; side stepping from the satirical towards the spiritual. She has a keen awareness of rhythm and the spoken word. Using simple language, she explores themes of power, loss, identity and love.

Includes such stories as: Aire , Butley , Kennet , Blyth , Elbe , and Beside the Stour .

Gathers poems from the author's first collection. This book features poetry that is filled with gothic romance and elemental forces, emotionally charged, even turbulent, and filled with spiritual bliss and unsublimated desires.

Contains stories that aim to leave you with the trace memory of some urban myth.

Presents a selection of the author's best known poems and includes some fine examples from her devotional writing. This book features the poem Goblin Market which is a tale of two sisters and their misadventures with goblins.

Contains stories which tell of lovers' meeting, of how a prisoner struggles, a forester grows curious, a patient survives, a girl falls and falls through space.

A collection of poems filled with violence, conspiracy and transgression.

Composed of sequenced aphorisms, observations, and remarks on such varied topics as the fear of death, mobile phones, conceptual art, international soccer, the linguistic behaviour of politicians, market forces, and the writing and reception of poetry.