The 101 poems in Oystercatcher Two, drawn from entries for our inaugural Robert Gray Prize for Poetry and from responses to our call for submissions earlier this year, range widely in theme, mood and form.
You will find here poems of passion and poems of wit, poems of reflection in a private garden, and poems that take us gunrunning in Africa or skydiving and skylarking God-knows-where. You will find sonnets and haiku, pantoums and ideograms, couplets and tercets and quatrains; prose poems and free verse and patterned forms that have no name.
 
What unites the collection is a shared commitment to making poems both timeless and timely, intelligent and intelligible, beautiful and urgent.