Before Dark: Collected Poems by Martin Anderson Guillaume Massieu never strays far from the

never strays far from the sharp humour and eye for detail that her readers have come to expect

The archives - in particular the archive of the writer Muriel Spark are used to create a space to come to terms with the complexities of a life and how we in turn tell stories about ourselves: the depths of our familial relationships

With profound moments and a cumulative power

so much so that one might say that Maps of Desire represents the perfect union of poet and translator

in words from the Poetry Book Society Bulletin: ‘Cooke’s lyrical insight and precision make the personal universal

Before Dark: Collected Poems by Martin Anderson Guillaume Massieu never strays far from theBefore Dark: Collected Poems reflects Anderson's peripatetic lifestyle of three decades. During a weekend in Paris in 1971, whilst teaching at the University of Grenoble, he met T. T. Wong, a young Chinese artist from Shanghai, and their long discussions cemented his aspiration to go East. English society had, he felt, since he was born into it shortly after the end of World War II, succeeded only in submerging his nose in the effluvium of a squalid