'Contemporary Poems of Bereavement', grief and other emotions, the questions we ask ourselves to make sense of it all, and a reminder that others have suffered loss and survived. The contributors, both uncomfortable and comforting, include: Sharon Olds, Frances Horowitz, Philip Hodgins, Elizabeth Jennings, Edmind Jabes, Seamus Heaney, Charles Bukowski, Anna Akhmatova, Federico Garcia Lorca, Peter Porter and Les Murray; introductions by the editors, foreword by Dr. Irene Higginson; indexes of poets, translators, titles, and first lines, 300+pp; inscribed to Judy Gascoyne by Agneta Falk.
