This book begins fittingly in the shadows. In the poem that sets off this debut collection—by theatre director, poet, and actor Martin Jago—names and signatures are omitted with a foreboding, stark bl...

From its outset, Fiona Larkin’s deft and layered debut, Rope Of Sand, explores the nature of instability as well as the instability of nature. In the collection’s opening poem, “Beach,”there is someth...