Andy Brown is Lecturer in Creative Writing & Arts at Exeter University. He has published three collections of poetry, From A Cliff (Arc, March 2002), The Wanderer’s Prayer (Arc, 1999), West of Yesterday (Stride, 1998), and two pamphlets. A collaborative book of poems, of Science, was co-written with poet David Morley (Worple Press, 2001). A selection of prose poems appears in Vital Movement: Reality Street 4Packs No.2 (Reality Street, 1999). He is the editor of Binary Myths: conversations with contemporary poets (Stride, 1998), and Binary Myths 2: correspondences with poet-editors (Stride, 1999). He has recently completed a first novel, Apples and Prayers, and he is working on a collection of short stories, and a new poetry collection, Colour Theory & other poems. He is the founding editor of Maquette Press, and has recorded and performed music in the UK and USA.

‘Andy Brown is one of our most interesting and exciting younger poets. His work combines deep, moving lyricism with a readiness for daring, but always convincing experimentation. His wit is subtle and delicate, well-tempered with compassion and insight. With its love of ideas and language, his work demonstrates that there need be no barriers in poetry; that the philosophical, the lyrical and the playful can be combined in work of assured and generous vision.’
— John Burnside

‘This thoughtful collection, which is unafraid of combining ideas with a strong lyrical impulse, is tender, precise and always mindful. This is a voice that resonates with wonder, and worries away at understanding shifts of perception and intimacy. These are poems which are, in every way, suffused with light.’
— Deryn Rees-Jones

‘These poems dazzle with their inventiveness of form, and intoxicate with their evocation of place.’          
— Henry Shukman