This pamphlet features work from Michael Laskey’s five previous collections, the most recent of which are Weighing the Present (smith|doorstop, 2014) and The Man Alone: New & Selected Poems (2008). His first two collections were Poetry Book Society Recommendations: Thinking of Happiness
(Peterloo, 1991) and The Tightrope Wedding (smith|doorstop, 1999), which was also shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize.