Possessed by Place - Adam Horovitz, Stewart Carswell, Josephine Lay

Sponsored by Black Eyes Publishing UKDo we possess place, or does it in fact possess and shape us? Three poets explore how our landscapes, both external and internal, influence our lives and creativity.Adam Horovitzs latest book Slow Migrations ( Indigo Dreams) travels Neolithic Gloucestershire and in it he reaches for his ancestors to grasp the long relationships between human and place, dog and human, water and land, natural and supernatural and to find, above all, the strong claim of one's own hinterland in shaping the present-day poet (Jo Bell).Stewart Carswell's collection Earthworks explores the connection between historical landscapes and personal discovery, drawing on sites in the West Country such as West Kennett Long Barrow and Offa's Dyke.

In Earthworks Stewart Carswell weaves history with the personal and the political in a powerful and impactful way.Josephine Lays richly imagistic and lyrical poems focus on the internal landscape.

Her peripatetic lifemarked by 32 moves has fostered a sense of impermanence and a fascination with the places we build within our minds.

Her poems are also possessed with the power and spirit of the natural world, which David Clarke describes as 'the lodestone of her collection A Quietus (Black Eyes Publishing).