SleeplessOurs is a restless age. At one extreme, 24 7 corporate culture and social media addiction leave many unable to literally and metaphorically switch off; at the other, millions are roaming continents in fear of their lives while looking for a safe place to rest. In Sleepless, poet Julia Deakin tirelessly questions how we have come to this exhausting impasse. Her hard hitting, wryly humorous and intensely humane collection probes our emotions, digs deep

Having taken the decision to emigrate decades earlier

with a new level of clarity and purpose adding weight to the words - without losing the warmth

when red defines a memory or mood

In the year after his death a first collection

relations between the state

They defiantly ask us: why do the great marquees of England stand empty

the Dee to the Severn

Maurice Harmon's poetry ranges from recreations of an idyllic pastoral world on the Ardgillan estate in north County Dublin to memories of psychological numbing at boarding school to scenes of intellectual and sexual challenges and confusions at University College

Sally McGrane pays tribute to one-time Odesa residents like Babel

the rise of neo-Fascism

Mouldering in the English border countryside the red gardens of Sugar Hall hold a secret

we know that we can trust this poet who never seems to forget her reader