Otherworlds - Poems of the mysterious

In the latest of her generous and absorbing anthologies, Judith Nicholls has collected a set of poems exploring those aspects of the natural world that seem to elude rational interpretation. The poems explore dreams and nightmares, birth and death, darkness and wildernesses of sea and forest. The wonderful thing about Nicholls' anthologies is that you can be sure of finding much loved favourites and work that is thrillingly unfamiliar. So here we have meditations from Causley, de la Mare and Shakespeare alongside snippets from Yang-ti, Thomas Traherne and Kobayashi Issa. Together with a wide range of complete poems, there are gnomic fragments from longer works, including some of the less frequented parts of the Bible. This is an indispensable collection.