Marcus Cumberlege has published two previous small collections of poems - `Oases' (1968) and `Poems for Quena & Tabla' (1970). `These poems are obviously the work of a highly sensitive and civilised heart', wrote the Anglo-Welsh Review of `Oases'. `Running Towards a New Life' covers his work from 1962-69, presenting a poet with an impressive command of a variety of themes, moods and styles - from formal lyrics and satires to prose poems, expressionist poems and cut-up.