Below This Level

<p><em>Below This Level</em> recounts the experience of prostate cancer: diagnosis treatment and recovery. These poems of tender affirmation and discovery also face up to the hard facts. Their expansive lyricism is dedicated to a sustained recognition of the kindness and intelligence of others.</p><p>‘Corcoran is at the front of contemporary poetry: the lyric grace of his language is threaded with an historical perspective that raises the poetry far beyond the world of a localised present.’ —Ian Brinton</p><p>‘Corcoran is a superbly skilled lyricist.’ —Frances Leviston <em>The Guardian</em></p>