Vital Stream by Lucy Newlyn Emily Hasler Having chosen six poets who

Having chosen six poets who are characterized by their constant examination of literary forms and exploration of new conceptual worlds

and has produced poetry of a remarkable luminosity and intensity

' – John Burnside

souls falling off things

Assurances begins in the 1950s during a period of vigilance and dread in the middle of the Cold War: the long stand-off between nuclear powers

Vital Stream by Lucy Newlyn Emily Hasler Having chosen six poets whoVital Stream takes the form of a long sonnet sequence, revisiting six extraordinary months in 1802 a threshold year for William and Dorothy Wordsworth. Parted when they were very young, the siblings had eventually set up home together in the Lake District, where they were to remain for the rest of their lives. After two years in Grasmere, William became engaged to Mary Hutchinson. There followed an intense period of re adjustment for all three, and