Stranger in the Mask of a Deer by Richard Skelton Nancy Gaffield almost magical stages that make

almost magical stages that make us what we are – people who create people

but English-language readers’ understanding of modern Greek poetry as a whole

this collection asks questions about poetry

the poems in Mark Roper’s new collection play a series of variations on how we perceive and try to connect with the ‘more-than-human’ world

Stranger in the Mask of a Deer by Richard Skelton Nancy Gaffield almost magical stages that makeStranger in the Mask of a Deer conjures an elemental, dreamlike narrative set in the Late Upper Palaeolithic, as the British peninsula was gradually reoccupied by humans (and animals) returning from the greater continent after the Ice Age. Skelton began the poem many years ago with the intention of exploring the history of Britain's landscape, only for the text to transform into a kind of literary seance involving both human and other than human. 'An