Poems for a Liminal Age offers a view of the way a certain group of people at a certain time in their planet s history see their lives and the world they live in. The poems, taken together, make for fascinating if not comfortable reading. Many present an impression of bleakness in situations of confusion, loneliness, sickness, mediocrity and boredom. There is a sense of waste, of goodness being squandered, of corruption, brutality and loss. Other poems, however, evoke a sense of becoming, a feeling for nostalgia, beauty, trust and friendship, an impression of longing and the possibility of vision. **** Poems for a Liminal Age is an anthology published by SPM Publications in support of Medecins Sans Frontieres. Edited by Mandy Pannett (author of All the Invisibles ) with an Afterword by Nnorom Azuonye, the Publishing Director & CEO of SPM Publications, the contributors to this anthology are: Mary E. Moore. Wendy Klein. Jim Bennett. Rupert Loydell. Matthew Wilson. Marc Woodward. Eilidh Thomas. Miles Salter. S.M. Beckett. Afam Akeh. Tania Hershman. Frances Gapper. Alwyn Marriage. Jay Ramsay. David Caddy. Paul Matthews. Aprilia Zank. Penny Hope. Martin Elster. Strider Marcus Jones. Michael Cantor. Judith Cair. James Bell. Patricia Ace. Oonah Joslin. John Freeman. Richard J.N. Copeland. Peter Branson. Sean Street. Rachael Clyne. Anna Crowe. Pansy Maurer-Alvarez. Marc Harshman. Catherine Ayres. Robert Schechter. Roselle Angwin. Vanessa Gebbie. Gill McEvoy. Martha Landman. Siham Karami. Bill Holdsworth. Kyle Norwood. Neil Howell. Nnorom Azuonye. Linus Lyszkowska. Lesley Burt. K.V.Skene. Beth Somerford. Ututu Emmanuel. Roger Elkin. Joe Fearn. Patrick B. Osada. Jehanne Mehta. John McCullough. Helen Moore. Kate Firth. Rachel J. Fenton. Lin Lundie. Diana Mitchener. Mario Petrucci. A C Clarke. Jackie Wills. Helen Clare. Anna Lunt. Shirley Wright. Norbert Hirschhorn. Caroline Davies. Nick Cooke. Jean-Mark Sens. Thomas R. Smith. Richard Skinner. Margaret Wilmot. Caron Freeborn. Caroline Maldonado. Spencer Edgar. Jacqui Wyatt. Anne Stewart. Charlotte Gann. Celia Dixie. Georgi Y. Johnson. Gordon Simms. Jan Harris. Rose Flint. Linda Black. Anthony Costello. R.T. Calway. Susan Richardson. Jocelyn Simms. Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Minde. Mark Totterdell. Clare Whistler. Simon Williams. Alison Hill. Tunde Oseni. Wendy Sloan. Margie Gaffron. Chris O Carroll. Andie Lewenstein. Mark Haworth-Booth. Sarah Beckett & Martha Landman. Caroline Gill. Kay Green. Susan Taylor. Camilla Lambert. Maxine Backus. Irena Pasvinter. Alison Lock. Christina Lloyd. Amarjit Chandan. Lennart Lundh. William Ayot. Susan Skinner. Jeff Cloves. Simon Zonenblick. Michaela Ridgway. *** 5 from every paperback copy of this book sold will be donated to Medecins Sans Frontieres to help continue the inspirational work they do all over the world."