Map and Atlas"Joan McBreens Map and Atlas comes to us from a confluence of two great rivers; two streams of thought, the one private, the other public. Her map work has been achieved through observation and memory, through a restlessness in nature and clear headed observations made through windows flung open. Here is a poet widely travelled, from Omey to Wellington, but with the lens constantly looking inward: The senses are not visionary and we ask neither more

The two senses - exile and seeding - will be obvious in much of the work collected here

but the relationship was reciprocal

adoption and loss – to the plain bizarre: a circus bearded lady

for example

for consultative styles of leadership in contrast to the tendency to authoritarianism that has been a malign element in Guyanese politics

written with unrivalled access both to Walcott and to his multiple library archives

a forthright and intimately observed narrative of Nichols’s partner as a trans teenager in an unwitting decade

He divides his time between Melbourne and a small village in north Lebanon

Miming Silence and Loose Ends) alongside new work

Her work has been translated into twelve languages

CJ Sage’s poems appear in publications such as The Antioch Review

Kops and Szirtes (another I was unaware was Jewish) - but space is not endless in a magazine