Books by Paul Hyland

Paul Hyland is an award-winning poet and travel writer who lives in Dorchester. His many publications include English topographical classics, travel books about Central Africa, India and Iberia, and most recently the acclaimed historical work Ralegh's Last Journey. He has published four books of poetry with Bloodaxe: Poems of Z (1982), the Stubborn Forest (1984), Kicking Sawdust (1995) and Art of the Impossible: New and Selected Poems 1974-2004 (2004). He also wrote Bloodaxe's indispensable Getting into Poetry, described by Suzi Feay in Time Out as `essential reading...the guide to the contemporary poetry scene'. He performs the Art of the Impossible as a professional magician.