“There is life in these poems and a life. John Freeman knows how to make the ordinary and everyday meaningful without resorting to fashionable tricks and clever turns of phrase. What happens is there to be thought about and turned into poems which, with their unobtrusive technique, draw the reader into them and into their life. It’s a rewarding experience.” Jim Burns

“His poetry re-awakens a sense of wonder in us… His way is to look very closely at nature and at human relationships. It’s the kind of attention Rilke recommended…” Kim Taplin

To Be In The Same World follows on from Worple’s much-acclaimed Looking In All Directions (Poems 1954-2000); many poems follow the tradition of the ‘American Sublime’, with Dufault reaching back to Emerson and Whitman and their belief in nature as moral teacher, the corner-stone of ethics and spiritual growth. The second part of the book is largely taken up with overtly political poems, urgent and satirical stabs at US domestic and foreign policy before and after 9/11. The poems in both parts of the book are, as ever, memorable, superbly crafted and again show Dufault to be one of America’s most important and undervalued writers.

Praise for Peter Kane Dufault:

‘Every poem has a surprise…every line pretty well. So fresh and new and itself…wonderful stuff. Snatches those uncatchable moments – like snatching a butterfly out of the air – then letting it go undamaged.’
Ted Hughes

‘He is a nature poet for grown ups. We need him.’
P.J.Kavanagh

‘Dufault is very much a substantial poet…arriving here now, at his best, as fresh and valuable as ever’
George Szirtes (Poetry Review)

‘Dufault’s inquisitive poems amuse as they instruct. His poems constantly kindle curiosity about life, all the while suggesting a way of coping with its inevitable end.’
John Taylor (Poetry)

In all there are contributions from 25 writers including Jonathan Attrill, Anne Fitzgerald, John Freeman, Jeremy Hooker, Ann Leahy, Paul McCloughlin, Nessa O’Mahoney and Hugh Underhill, all new to Worple. Established names include Andy Brown, Peter Kane Dufault, David Morley, Peter Robinson and Iain Sinclair.

All the work is uncollected and it will give a very good snapshot of how far Worple has come since 1997 and where it is heading over the next few years.

Any writing by Iain Sinclair, one of our greatest modern writers, is bound to provoke and intrigue. Sinclair’s new book of poetry is as vivid and original in its take on language and place as his track record would suggest. The presence of the sea and the human leavings (memorial, elegiac, twisted and other) at its edge, dominate the book. Highlights include sequences entitled ‘Patrick Hamilton’ and ‘Blair’s Grave’. Multiple points of view and garnished obliquities make this an irreverent, scholarly, bizarre, spookily de-familiarising and utterly engrossing read — a must for the legions of Sinclair devotees from the days of ‘Lud Heat’ onwards.

‘Not even the Thousand Handed Giant could easily turn over all the poems and open half of the portals of intelligence in this book… It is one of the cliffs of Blake’s and Coleridge’s Albion sweeping against the walls of Everywhere.’
Michael McClure (on The Firewall)

‘A broken sequence of breathtakingly lovely modern free-verse lyrics.’
Jenny Turner (on Lud Heat)

‘Sinclair is an authentic visionary. Only at the end of the book, however, do we realise we’ve also been in the power of a genuine wizard, someone capable of tracing patterns and designs only barely perceptible to most people and, more to the point, able to reveal them to us.’
Michael Moorcock

These poems speak with the immediacy and fierce honesty of recorded thoughts. Exploring the world for the small gestures, the real details that act as revelation, she is both a celebrant and a custodian of memory. Her vision is eloquent and profoundly humane.
Martha Kapos

These are poems that combine boldness and honesty of thought with remarkable delicacy of expression, facing the fullness of experience with a stubborn, patient accuracy that never forgets that the world comes in touching, precise detail. Elizabeth Cook has a very distinctive style, almost a prose-writer’s thoroughness, but forced into poetry, so to speak, by its intensity and brevity. I am put in mind of Marianne Moore, but Cook is tougher than Moore…
D.M. Black

ANTHONY WILSON was born in Middlesex in 1964. He has held residencies for The Poetry Society and The Poetry Trust. He is co-editor of The Poetry Book for Primary Schools (Poetry Society, 1998) and he is editor of Creativity in Primary Education (Learning Matters, 2005). He lives and works in Exeter.

Anthony Wilson’s poems get to the heart of human relationships: our lives as individuals within families and communities, the way we are alone and together. His honest enquiries sometimes take us into dark places, but he leads the way with warmth and humour and a gift for discovering real value.
Jean Sprackland

Economical, witty and observant. An habitual and natural delicacy covers the more primitive emotions that thrive beneath the Carver-like surface.
Marita Over, Ambit

Anthony Wilson’s acute and astute observations are witty, humorous and often poignant. He looks at what it means to occupy various roles as son, brother, father, husband, teacher . and the best of these poems create a finely balanced tension, tantalizing, resonant.
Catherine Smith, The Frogmore Papers