National competition winners ( Caroline Price, Jenny Morris, Anna Davis, Phil Powley, David Grubb, Julian Stannard, Kate Rhodes,etc.) alongside young writers from Kent and Sussex ( Jack Lindsay, Megan Snyders, Hariett Hughes, etc.)plus introduction from Ann and Peter Sansom

Ann Sansom's new collection is a welcome return for a quietly authoritative, resiliently gritty poet whose debut collection. Romance, won her many admirers. These are poems that overturn readers' expectations. They often present human dramas in which people are seen as acting out their versions of themselves in their own fictions. They are set in curiously deracinated urban landscapes, homing in on chance encounters and missed connections, and balanced by a brisk authenticity and affectionate generosity.