Four friends, colleagues and poets - Karen Head, Blake Leland, JC Reilly and Robert Wood - gave themselves an extraordinary yearlong assignment: write a poem each month based on a holiday or seasonal event. On Occasion: Four Poets, One Year is the thrilling results.

This stimulating edited collection focuses on the practice of revision across all creative writing genres, providing a guide to the modes and methods of drafting, revising and editing. Offering an overview of how creative writing is generated and improved, the chapters address questions of how creative writers revise, why editing is such a crucial part of the creative process and how understanding the theories underpinning revision can enhance writers' projects. Innovative and thought-provoking, this book is ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate students of creative writing, along with all creative writers looking to hone and polish their craft.

或許我可以找回失散已久的朋友， 母親的記憶。我突然發現自己 拿著婚禮蛋糕刀，看到刻有K字， 全身發抖，起雞皮疙瘩。 我記得，有些事，故意遺失。 《故意遺失》大致上屬紀遊詩，分成「聯合王國」、「歐洲大陸」和「新世界」三輯，各包含20幾首詩，在細微末節上能賦出詩意，顯示詩人才具真章。作者自己提示「此書核心主題是外地交流，以及這種交流如何使人反思自己的身份意識」，另外提到「《故意遺失》也是關於愛的書，特別是晚年發現的愛。同理，旅行歲月和更多『被譯』的生命觀，往往成為年齡更大、經驗更豐富人員的標誌。我們每遊覽過一個新地方，會不斷改變我們對世界的觀點。我們經時學習，擁抱差異，當做美好而且豐富的事物」。

The poems and prose poems of award winning poet Karen Head. Many previously published in national journals, this is her first collection.

THE CUTTING ROOM FLOOR CUTS BACK Welcome to a macabre cinema for the imagination, to screenings of twisted tales projected not on a movie screen but on the page. In Reel Dark you'll find stories and poems by authors ranging from new voices to bestsellers to Bram Stoker Award finalists. From the battle for recognition between a child actress and a vengeful, long-forgotten film star in "Whatever Happened to Peggy...Who?" to a madman controlling a student a la The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari in "Caligarisme," to a hapless Dreamist, whose talent propels him into a nightmare of jealousy and revenge in "The Dreamist," the authors have created worlds filled with madness, twisted desires, and broken dreams. The genres inside include suspense, horror, science fiction, and fantasy. You'll meet a lone deputy whose pursuit of justice harkens back to the wild West (complete with a gunfight), a director who literally puts himself into his film, a young woman haunted by a mysterious stranger who warns her of her impending demise, and an aging actress who may have been a little too good at playing her roles. In a world where the lines between reality and fantasy blur, where film frames flicker at 24 frames per second, we catch a glimpse of strangers' dreams and nightmares. As David Lynch puts it, "This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top." As Karen Head writes in her poem responding to Lynch, "In the movies / everything is illusion." But in a world with cameras everywhere, how do you know whether you're in a movie?"

Lost on Purpose is a universe of portals, a poetry collection that offers the rare invitation to be both observer and intimate, taking in the reverie of landscape and lover, travel and art. Head's poems open irresistible doors-reminding each of us to echo the affirmation, "where I'm from / will not dictate where I am going."