Voting For Spring Central to the title poem is the long human struggle for survival against ice and cold. The poem makes contact with our present climate crisis, as well as suggesting a dimension which is more personal.

The keynote of Paul Mills's new book is affirmation, but also uncertainty - a day and night experience for the speaker of `Women in a munitions factory`, from a group of poems based on archive film. His reaction to his daughter`s psychiatric illness and her recovery is the subject of the powerful sequential poem 21/2001.

Together these poems reflect his ability to move between the remote and everyday, to combine intense vividness with philosophical insight.

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His last collection of poems, Dinosaur Point , was the overall winner of the 1999 Smith Doorstop Book and Pamphlet Competition.

Paul is a painter as well as a poet. He was the last holder of the Gregory Fellowship in Poetry at the University of Leeds . He has also written plays, essays, reviews of contemporary poetry, and two books on Creative Writing.

Leeds University has recently acquired his literary archive which includes working drafts of published and unpublished material.