In Praise of Men and Other People

Ann Sansoms poetry overturns the readers expectations. Her poems often present human dramas in which people are seen as acting out their versions of themselves in their own fictions what Stanley Cook called an authentic Northern mix of realism and imagination. In Praise of Men and other people was her first new book for nearly a decade, a welcome return for a quietly authoritative, resiliently gritty poet whose debut collection Romance won her many admirers.