Portsmouth Unabridged: New Poems for an Old City : the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program

This slim volume of "spiritual cartography" captures as much nuance and depth as the accompanying stellar photographs, all of which evoke a facet of Portsmouth's character. The poets range in age from nine to one hundred, and their chosen topics span a suitably broad spectrum: from "The Whale in Prescott Park, " to "Three Moons" and "Toys R Us." The fresh and unadorned; the grand and familiar; the commercial and authentic all have equal ballast in the city's landscape.