Giant Crabs and SpidersKant and marmalade, a solemn talk with a lift, an existential struggle with something from IKEA, an absurdist discussion of meaning in poetry, or a disquisition on the nature of windows: Robin Thomas is a poet of high imagination, always looking for the unusual angle and finding it over and over in this, his latest collection. Giant Crabs and Spiders ranges across philosophy, painting, music, literature, politics, history, science, and what its like

It's a real slice of life

has encouraged her to write prose poems filled with explosiveness and extroversion

and cursed by one of her rivals

dealing with their memories

from the relative integration of his ancestors to his rebellion against this and his long association with Murdoch

Mount London is a unique and visionary record of the vertical city

A woman that feels the urge to steal babies

others have contemplated the body-altering horrors of motherhood

He has won an Eric Gregory Award

She brings to all a combination of passion and compassion

Seven Views of Cork City

drawing on historical characters such as Greta Garbo and kabarett legend Klabund