Grief

<p>In this volume of prose poetry five poets approach grief in different ways; the emotion sometimes recognisable sometimes disguised. Their works grieve for those who are gone while they traverse the idea of the abiding presence of loss. If a melancholy sense of absence is occasionally registered in these poems there is humour too. And more generally there are many salutary expressions of grief-inflected yet powerfully present feelings of love and desire.</p>