“I want these poems to help people to practise empathy”

Strands of autobiography, a deeply sensuous ecology of place, historical narratives; the inner world of imagination and the often difficult realities of the postcolonial nation are interwoven in McWatt's bold but carefully worked out architecture. Peepal Tree

So oft as I her beauty do behold. - Edmund Spenser 'Amoretti LV'

The imagination is not a State: it is the Human existence itself. William Blake

John Fairfax's poems return us to the important sources: spells they braid linger and haunt like sweetness of a wood after rain. - Adam Thorpe

I travelled, however, mainly to find places to come to rest in, places to write in, oases.

Where is the spirit that touched the hearts / Lightly - chameleon colours of home? - 'Visiting Zomba Plateau', Jack Mapanje