Stephen Edgar’s new poetry collection Imaginary Archive continues his contemplative exploration of time and place, art and life. It includes a range of translations of texts ancient and modern. Edgar’s remarkable ease with complex poetic forms, not least the sonnet, is much in evidence. As Martin Duwell commented in his review of Ghosts of Paradise, ‘the brilliance of Edgar’s work establishes that this poetic method is absolutely right for him’. These complex, moving and profound poems richly repay close, careful and repeated readings.