The Fire in Me Now tackles human imperfections head on and with great energy. In a forthright, at times angry and always eloquent series of poems, Michael Curtis takes us from managed rage through moving reflections on mortality and wry observations on the complications of love to a hard-won, uncompromising state of acceptance. In a world of continuing conflict, rampant technology and challenged values The Fire in Me Now is a powerful, telling collection, which responds with articulate urgency to our current condition. Michael Curtis grew up in Liverpool, attended Oxford and Sheffield universities, has worked in library and cultural services, literature development and events management and lives in Kent. He is widely published in magazines and anthologies and has given readings and workshops in England, Ireland, the Isle of Man, Belgium, France, Finland, Germany, Latvia, and the UN Buffer Zone, Cyprus. He was Writer in Residence for the Arts Council, England Great Expectations conference, the Metropole Arts Centre, Folkestone, the Maison de Poesie, Nord/Pas de Calais in France, and the Writers and Translators House, Ventspils, Latvia. His work has been studied and translated at the Universities of Liege, Bucharest and Munich and broadcast on radio in England, Ireland, Romania and Latvia. Horizon, his eleventh collection of poems, was set on the Isle of Man and launched at the first Manx Litfest in 2012.