Poetry. How do we read poets' lives and their own words about those lives? The first substantial selection from a collaboration in progress, LIVES OF THE POETS gathers together seventy three poets, from Chaucer to Hopkins, Lady Mary Wroth to Ebenezer Elliott, and the texts find new ways through their writings: illuminating, canon-breaking and provoking fresh responses to their words and language. Alan Halsey's books include THE TEXT OF SHELLEY'S DEATH and WITTGENSTEIN'S DEVIL: SELECTED WORKS 1978-98. Martin Corless-Smith's OF PISCATOR was published by the University of Georgia Press in 1997 and his COMPLETE TRAVELS by West House in 2000. All of these works are available from SPD.