Measures of Expatriation Shearsman these poems are forays of

these poems are forays of discovery and resistance

The remarkable poems in Basic Nest Architecture are a testament to the persistence and artistry of Polly Atkin

and 'heartbreaking' as they 'converse from the inside out… come alive in the back and forth of a mind attempting to understand what it means to be in relation to

keeping a weather eye out for telling detail

Trees is Mark Waldron’s third collection

Measures of Expatriation Shearsman these poems are forays of'Expatriation: my having had a patria, a fatherland, to leave, did not occur to me until I was forced to invent one. [] This luxury of inattention, invention, and final mismatch a 'Trinidad' being created that did not take my Trinidad away (my Trinidad takes itself away, in reality, over time) that is expatriation, no? An exile, a migrant, a refugee, would have been in more of a hurry, would have been more driven out or driven towards, would have been