'Textual Possessions' is Peter Philpott's first poetry collection for many years. He has always been noted for his work in longer forms, above all the poem-sequence, and this volume brings together three such long sequences written over the past ten years: ©In the Present Historic Sense©, a wonderful poem of place that concerns itself with the author's native North-West Somerset, plus ©On Being Voiced©, and ©An Encounter Upon the Beach at Minehead With the Prince of This World©.