Sandpaper and Seahorses Victor Schiferli

Sandpaper and Seahorses Victor SchiferliFrom Costa Rica to Japan, Somerset to Cumbria, and taking in Antarctica too, with oceans and islands as seen from a small boat, John Froys second collection draws its concerns from human vulnerability and ecological anxiety. Straightforward and direct, these poems take on loss, both personal and global, but they bring to it a joy in creation, as well as humour, gratitude, admiration and love.

set in her native California

was published in 1953 and her short story collection

Together with her ongoing involvement with Irish literary festivals such as the Yeats Summer School

Wared Bader al-Salem

and collects together all poets who since that time have published at least two full collections of verse

full of compassion

The book is attractively designed

the history of art and Amazonian culture at the Federal University of Pará (UFPA)

Matko Sršen is a director

the MAP Book Design Award

imaginative intensity

Its use of language is eloquent and concentrated and its juxtapositions are often daring