Taken from his first six books, these poems confirm Robert Crawford as a poet of exhilarating energy wedded to a constantly refreshing delight in nuanced language. Richly nourished by his background, Crawford's work is both lyrical & wry. Its intelligent humour & attunement to our technological present are impressively fused with a deepening note of spirituality. Unpredictable yet recognisable, these are poems of beguiling vitality.

While readers have praised Crawford's lovingly lyrical engagement with politics & science in such collections as A Scottish Assembly (1990) & Spirit Machines (1999), with gender in Masculinity (1996), or with environment & spirituality in The Tip of My Tongue (2003), what emerges in this Selected Poems is a clearly growing commitment to the protean delight of poetry itself: a belief in its uniqueness as a medium which can subtly sound out complex relationships with heartfelt intelligence. In Crawford's language there is a confidently contemporary Scottish music that celebrates a kinship between the cherished, minute detail, local or personal, & the magnificently universal, ' As a candle-flame believes in the speed of light'.

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For the past four decades, Robert Bringhurst has been writing some of the most powerful poetry in English. Distinguished by engaged & passionate curiosity, a wide-ranging intelligence & true originality, his poetry has sometimes been mistaken as austere & opaque. In fact, his work engages in ideas about the human condition, myth, the natural world, language & philosophy, & is unusual for having both a pared simplicity & profound wisdom. His watchword is clarity, & the elements he considers crucial to effective typography could just as easily be looked for ...

For the past four decades, Robert Bringhurst has been writing some of the most powerful poetry in English. Distinguished by engaged & passionate curiosity, a wide-ranging intelligence & true originality, his poetry has sometimes been mistaken as austere & opaque. In fact, his work engages in ideas about the human condition, myth, the natural world, language & philosophy, & is unusual for having both a pared simplicity & profound wisdom. His watchword is clarity, & the elements he considers crucial to effective typography could just as easily be looked for ...

The first ever selection of her stories, from her earliest published work in 1968 to her latest in 1994. Her star is in the ascendant -winner of the 1994 W. H. Smith Award, shortlisted for the second time in 1995 for the Irish Times International Fiction Award. This wonderful selection of the greatest stories will demonstrate her genius, her versatility, her extraordinary humanity, & will delight new readers as well as her fans. ...

Selected Writings

Includes:: the bext of Richard Mabey's important & wide-ranging journalism, from nature

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Self Comes to Mind explores two questions that have haunted philosophers, neurologists, cognitive scientists & psychologists for centuries: how do brains construct minds, & how do minds become conscious?

Antonio Damasio has spent the past thirty years studying & writing about how the brain operates, & his work has garnered acclaim for its singular melding of the scientific & the humanistic. In this revelatory work, he debunks the long-standing idea that consciousness is somehow separate from the body, presenting astounding new scientific evidence that consciousness

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