What do American poets mean when they talk about freedom? How can form help us understand questions about what shapes we want to give our poetic lives, and how much power we have to choose those shapes? For that matter, what do we even mean by we? In this collection of essays, Peter Campion gathers his thoughts on these questions and more to form an evolutionary history of the past century of American poetry.Through close readings of the great modernists, midcentury object...

The poems in this collection capture the fantastic feeling of falling in love, all while keeping eyes on its lifecycles of crashing aftermaths, lingering regrets, guilt, and renewal. Peter Campion brings us to a series of scenes—on the damp patio, in the darkroom, and along the interstate—where we find familiar characters, lovers, and strangers. In the title poem, he takes us to the falls, where people and passions mix amid the sticky hanging mists:That charge of summer nights, that...

Peter’s interest in poetry writing began 17 years ago when his first grandchildren were born, and is prompted by emotional experiences, tending to focus on medical, religious, family and nature themes. Peter was born in 1946, now aged 74. He went to Southend High School where he gained an open exhibition to study Medicine at Pembroke College Oxford. After four years at Oxford he went to the London Hospital Medical College and then to Great Ormond Street, where he studied Paediatrics. He de...

When I seen Donald Trump name Space Force, I probably experienced one of the best moments of my life. I was in Sarah Redfern Primary School at Minto when Space Shuttle Columbia exploded. During the lead up, I remember an excited teacher at school and we were doing a project that involved us watching the launch on TV early in the morning, then being confused, just like the rest of the kids and eventually our teacher said without saying much more than OK kids, the project is over, the explos...

A space traveller who is a fugitive on Earth uses the Universe as his hideout.

The Nutkracker - a full cast audio play featuring famous melodies and beautiful music. On Christmas Eve, Clara receives a nutcracker from her godfather Drosselmeyer. During the night she has a strange dream: the nutcracker is fighting with his toy soldiers against the army of the Mouse King. Clara helps him, whereupon the nutcracker turns into a prince. Together they travel to the realm of sweets, where they get caught in a snowstorm and eventually land in Zuckerburg Castle. There the Suga...

"The Nutkracker" is a full-cast audio drama featuring famous melodies, exquisite arias and outstanding voice actors. On Christmas Eve, Clara receives a nutcracker from her godfather, Drosselmeyer. That night she has a strange dream, in which the nutcracker fights alongside his toy soldiers against the Mouse King's army. Clara helps him, and the nutcracker transforms into a prince. Together they journey to the Realm of Sweets, where they are caught in a snowstorm and eventually arrive at Zu...

Clara receives a nutcracker from her godfather Drosselmeyer on Christmas Eve. That night she dreams the nutcracker is fighting with toy soldiers against the army of the Mouse King. Clara helps the nutcracker and it transforms into a prince. Together they travel to the land of sweets and celebrate a wonderful sweet festival with the Sugar Plum Fairy. It was all just an amazing dream - or was it...?

"Hansel and Gretel" is a full-cast audio drama, presented as an exciting adventure for children, featuring famous melodies, exquisite themes and outstanding voice actors. Hansel and Gretel are sent into the forest by their mother to collect berries as punishment. The siblings become lost at twilight and discover the gingerbread house of an ugly old witch. She enchants the children and plans to bake them into gingerbread. Hansel and Gretel use their wits to save themselves, pushing the wick...

In El Dorado, Peter Campion explores what it feels like to live in America right now, at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Splicing cell-phone chatter with translations of ancient poems, jump-cutting from traditional to invented forms, and turning his high-res lens on everything from box stores to trout streams to airport lounges, Campion renders both personal and collective experience with capacious and subtle skill.

Drawing on the proceedings of two conferences organized to celebrate the centenary of John Berryman’s birth in 2014, John Berryman: Centenary Essays provides new perspectives on a major US American poet’s work by critics from Ireland, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States. In addition to new readings of important aspects of Berryman’s development – including his creative and scholarly encounters with Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth and W. B. Yeats – the book gives fresh...

By 2042, the Indian Ocean no longer slept.It moved quietly, deliberately, woven together by thousands of autonomous machines that skimmed the surface, plunged beneath the waves, and hovered in the salt-slick air. From orbit, the ocean no longer looked empty or blue but threaded with green: vast lattices of seaweed farms growing where open water once lay unused.They called it the future swarm.Each drone was small. Insignificant alone. Together, they behaved like a li...