Kelvin Corcoran's first book, Robin Hood in the Dark Ages, appeared in 1985 and he has published eight subsequent collections with a range of British small presses. This volume presents a complete new collection, 'Against Purity', together with a previously unpublished shorter sequence, 'My Life With Byron', plus selections from each of his previous nine volumes of poetry, to give an overview of the work of one of the finest British poets of his generation.