Negative space

'Negative Space' draws on two recent collections published in Albania, 'Almost Yesterday' and 'Homo Antarcticus'.

The latter features one of the central sequences in 'Negative Space', a long poem tracing the fate of a British Antarctic explorer, Frank Wild, who could adapt to months of near-starvation in sub-zero Antarctica but not to later life back in civilisation, one of a number of poems in the book relating to society's pressure on the individual.