On the Beach with Chet Baker Evelyn Shakir But when he is rescued

But when he is rescued and taken with Yarico to the slave island of Barbados

the other filling your ears

Peter Porter

who himself was born and brought in the Hebridean island of Islay

Umberto Saba

On the Beach with Chet Baker Evelyn Shakir But when he is rescued"Presence and absence, some sort of together" ('On the Beach with Chet Baker'). These are the three places that Robert Seatter's second book of poems explores, with deftness, insight and artistry. They move from places of stasis and memory, through the uneasy proximities of love captured in the moody jazz trumpet of the title poem, and out to the uncharted spaces that loss and death can create. His arresting imagination is equally at home with the