People with Real Lives Don't Need Landscapes

This big, bouncy collection of contemporary poetry draws on both popular and high culture. The poems have energy, imagination, humor, and lively speech rhythms. They are light, weighty, topical, intellectual, gory, sad, wild, and tender all at once.

John Dolan is the editor of the expatriate's journal Exile. He is the author of Stuck Up, Poetic Occasion from Milton to Wordsworth, and Masculinities in Aotearoa/New Zealand.