Imagined Rooms

The poems in Imagined Rooms invite the reader in Philip Gross's words 'to take it all in'. Written between the 1970s and the start of the Clinton and Blair era, they display a voracious imagination, a freedom with language and a hard-bitten compassion. A worthy companion to Keeping Time, also published by Salt, Imagined Rooms is global in its outlook, making what was once strange or distant immediate and present. It offers a view on a world where there is no place to hide and where, in Dooley's paraphrase of Jaccottet, the poet's role is to name and look out for 'every item left at risk'.