The poems in "Near-Life Experience" are curious about the present moment, its weather and animals, its objects and things. They want to make it real in language, catching it before it vanishes. Documenting landscapes, paintings, insects and trees, Ne...

"A Few Interiors" is the debut collection from an alumna of Carcanet's "New Poetries" series, and a recent favourite in the pages of "PN Review". Rowland Bagnall's poems are, in various ways, about seeing things – movies, paintings, landscapes, rooms...