A Fold in the Map Format:Paperback I Want Something Other Than

I Want Something Other Than Time worries the problem of self-identicality—the distance between the self and the self that recognizes the self—into the socio-political sphere as a problem of temporality

and historical use of leeches

espionage and even honest translation

and as a scholar of the poetry of John Montague and of the Dolmen Press

making her way through a townscape similar but not identical to the too-small-to-be-cities of poet Julia Bird's 70s & 80s childhood

A Fold in the Map Format:Paperback I Want Something Other ThanA Fold in the Map charts two very different voyages: a tracing of the dislocations of leaving ones native country, and a searching exploration of grief at a fathers final painful journey. In the first part of the collection, Plenty before the fold the poems deal with family, and longing for home from a new country, with all the ambiguity and doubleness this perspective entails. In the books second half, Meet My Father, the poems recount events more