Below This Level recounts the experience of prostate diagnosis, treatment, and recovery. These poems of tender affirmation and discovery also face up to the hard facts. Their expansive lyricism is dedicated to a sustained recognition of the kindness and intelligence of others. 'Corcoran is at the front of contemporary the lyric grace of his language is threaded with an historical perspective that raises the poetry far beyond the world of a localised present.' --Ian Brinton 'Corcoran is a superbly skilled lyricist.' --Frances Leviston, The Guardian