Still [ Life

In this generous assembling of work fromthe past ten years the Anglo-American poet Robert Vas Dias explores meanings and resonances inherent in art and the suggestive implications of objects which both make up the quotidian and help to define us. This is a poetry of ''domestic tranquillity'' as well as chaos of the absurd and the numinous of the serious and comedic. Vas Dias is the author of eight poetry collections in the USA and UK and has edited or co-edited four literary journals-two in the USA and two in the UK. His poetry and criticism have appeared in about 100 magazines and journals as well as in a dozen anthologies. His most recent collection was Leaping Down to Earth 2008 with images by Stephen Chambers and Tom Hammick. He is a tutor with The Poetry School in London and editor-publisher of Permanent Press.