A Fold in the Map Format:Paperback I Want Something Other Than

I Want Something Other Than Time worries the problem of self-identicality—the distance between the self and the self that recognizes the self—into the socio-political sphere as a problem of temporality

and as a scholar of the poetry of John Montague and of the Dolmen Press

espionage and even honest translation

he was brought up by his blind mother and elderly grandmother amid the rigid Presbyterian confines of Scotland’s north-east

and historical use of leeches

A Fold in the Map Format:Paperback I Want Something Other ThanA Fold in the Map charts two very different voyages: a tracing of the dislocations of leaving ones native country, and a searching exploration of grief at a fathers final painful journey. In the first part of the collection, Plenty before the fold the poems deal with family, and longing for home from a new country, with all the ambiguity and doubleness this perspective entails. In the books second half, Meet My Father, the poems recount events more