Apocalyptic LandscapeThe poems in this anthology emerged from a creative writing short course devised by Steve Ely, entitled 'Writing the Apocalyptic Landscape' the first in a planned series under the rubric of 'The Expressionist Poetry Workshop'. Participants were encouraged to generate visionary responses to the crisis of the Anthropocene in the context of landscapes important to them. The course and anthology are also part of a wider AHRC funded research project,

Each poem bristles with life and longing

In ghostly conversation with the sixteenth-century emblematist Andrea Alciato – a witness to a lonely time – the poems are carried forward by a non-linear dream logic of metaphor and similitude

The book tells the stories of those who worked on the rivers: millers

The book articulates both the feeling and the struggle to articulate the feeling of being in spaces built for others

Determined to find the person responsible for Kito’s death

As Nguyen’s ranging narrative moves through autobiography

and writers from around the world contribute their feelings on his passing

The Caribbean Writer

and a variety of literary and non- literary forms

Africa and Europe

Clarice Lispector and Marguerite Duras

Shaped around five inspiring chapters