A Watchful Astronomy Aimee Sands and a short story by

and a short story by Sudanese author Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin

and when an England scout comes on the lookout for potential new players

in the Second World War he was the driving force and inspiration behind the establishment of the Home Guard

only ever in part and neither beginning nor resolved

Through this startling variety of poems in a range of forms from blank verse to free verse to "shaped" poetry runs a steady concern with what it's like to find and lose

A Watchful Astronomy Aimee Sands and a short story byWelsh raised and Bristol based, the poet Paul Deaton has produced a debut collection, A Watchful Astronomy, full of poems that are artfully formal, quietly precise, yet full of powerful emotion. Part of the popular Spoke performance group and frequently published in The Spectator, amongst other places, Deatons star has been on the rise in recent years.