Martin Langford has published six books of poetry, including The Human Project: New and Selected Poems (P&W, 2009). Thematically, he is interested in the way we try to imagine ourselves beyond our biological inheritance, and in the evolution of our social and imaginative spaces. He lives on the northern outskirts of Sydney, and the landscape of that area often features in his work. In Microtexts (Island 2005), which is a book of poetics, he argues for poetry’s engagement with the other, and against the enlargement obsessions of our standard narratives. He is the editor of Harbour City Poems: Sydney in Verse 1788-2008 (P&W, 2009).