'Textual Possessions' is Peter Philpott's first poetry collection for many years. He has always been noted for his work in longer forms above all the poem-sequence and this volume brings together three such long sequences written over the past ten years: In the Present Historic Sense a wonderful poem of place that concerns itself with the author's native North-West Somerset plus On Being Voiced and An Encounter Upon the Beach at Minehead With the Prince of This World.