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Too often the short story is regarded as merely a poor cousin of the novel, a weekend break for novelists - an assumption that demeans the short and neglects the fact that it has an anatomy all of its own. This anthology is a one-off experiment to show how much the short has in common with a very different literary form, the poem. Established and award winning poets from around Britian and the UK have been asked to 'interlope' into the unknown territory of the short - most of them for the first time and each bringing with them a new, poetic perspective as well as an intuitive feel for the snapshot's hidden narratives."Read this book" Liz Lochhead, PN Review, March 2004. Featuring 20 leading poets writers: Steven Blyth studied Philosophy and Literature at Bolton Institute and English as a post-graduate at Manchester University. He has published three collections of poetry: The Gox (Redbeck), Baddy and So (both Peterloo).