Poetry. Kelvin Corcoran has allied a strikingly individual intelligence to a genuinely musical sensibility -- Don Paterson, The Oberver. Yes: Monday cracks across a grey enamel sky./ No: Monday cracks across etc./ A fragmentation pattern called the backward calendar,/reduced to naught, a circle in a red square. (Is This the Breaking of My First Life?) There is a clear sad music playing right through this book of answers, steady and unmistakable -- Roy Fisher.