Remarkable Occurrences"Remarkable Occurrences is Lodge at his best ? finely observed moments, images to die for, and an assured tone throughout. There is nothing parochial or self centred in this colourful and cosmopolitan collection by a poet who knows and loves his craft. The title sequence celebrates Cook? s voyage into the unknown, rescuing characters and incidents from historic and cultural obscurity, but the real exploration here is of ourselves in a diversity of

James Simmons

politically engaged and playful account of our ‘whole green world

high and drifting

languages and cultures

take a road trip to Ireland

wayward or broken forms of love

The material

alongside Music is my Mistress (Duke Ellington)

('Pastoral')

Ghalya al-Said: Poems

a rattlesnake

while maintaining a