At the heart of this book is an image from Homer: the great shield which Hephaestus forged for the warrior, Achilles. In his second collection, Lyndon Davies attempts to imagine a shield for the complexities of the current era. What emblems would it carry? Who and what might it be protecting and against what, in a world in which oppositions are at once agonisingly entrenched and radically compromised?

The contributors to the anthology Shadow Plays are gathered together from Nova Scotia, Delhi, the English Midlands and two Welsh linguistic traditions.

Shadows – A deceitful interplay of the light and the dark, they appear to be darkest in the brightest of light and they leave you alone in the darkest hour. A cultural outlook – a symbolic depiction of the theme “After Dark” by these writers from all over the world.

This collection of international poetry features world famous names; Jorge Luis Borges, Rudyard Kipling, Rainer Maria Rilke, William Wordsworth, Kahil Gibran and P

Whiteout's double voice searches out those troubling dualities, paradoxes and dislocations that mark our lives. Relishing the pull of bodies, these poems explore the borders between human and cosmic spheres, life and art, the organic and the technological, the secular and the spiritual. Common ground is turned up in unexpected places. The edgework of these poems marks a willingness to quibble. By turns impassiones, elegiac and tounge-in-cheek, Whiteout confronts the reader with the world s uncertainties and disorder.