Following the 2012 publication of the successful "Surrounded: Living With Islands," Write Wing Publishing is pleased to present "Through A Distant Lens: Travel Poems." This anthology collects the work of 46 poets who describe their exhilarating travels, both physical and interior, from river-barging in Burgundy to observing the decapitation of a statue in Ireland. Humor, pathos, acute observations of nature, and meditations on death are just a few of the elements that inform these lively, lovely, lilting works of wordcraft.

Poets from many places contribute their gorgeous poems to this anthology about living on or with islands, and the ways in which islands have shaped their world views. From the lyrical to the tragic, from the humorous to the downright fantastic, from Easter Island to the Moon, these poems will nudge the reader toward re-thinking previously held notions of what it means to live with islands. Includes "Making Islands" by Henry Hughes, the winner of the 2012 Write Wing Poetry Prize.