HauntMark Graniers Haunt unfolds in tender, observant gestures. There is much sadness here regarding personal memory, death, and a sense of generations passing. This makes for an elegiac collection but Graniers elegies are not made of pieties. They are spiced with wit and live on their precisions. The sequences in the book are accumulations of what it is to be human, vulnerable, sharp eyed and a part of things. George Szirtes Mark Granier was born in

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Eileen Battersby

His work as an organiser and deliverer of poetry workshops has been hailed in many parts of the world

a transcriptor’s preface

made me angry and envious

Hilmy Salem: poems

and legendary lovers

and describes in detail the Welsh religious causes in London

life in Yemen today

explores his importance to British art and charts the influence of the Impressionists

a foul-mouthed old woman

His vision is turned upon the people