Paul Hyland is alert to the source and power of his poetry. Words culled from darkness are fine-tuned under bright lights. He does what storytellers, shamans, singers and musicians have always done: he takes on the world beyond the firelight - or the computer screen - with tales, songs and spells; he dons masks, plays games and tricks, performs modest miracles and, in all seriousness, attempts the art of the impossible.

Paul Hyland's Art of the Impossible includes the life work of the spy-poet Z as well as poems from other books. In a substantial collection of new poems, he goes underground in Cleveland, explores the Mesolithic South, worries at Iberia and gets into the heads of unlikely characters.

Poems of Z: 'Compelling, sometimes haunting poems' - Pick of the Week, BBC Radio 4

'An inventive, morally acute imagination' - Michael O'Neill, Poetry Review

'An archetypal poet, for whom language constitutes a world' – Lachlan Mackinnon, TLS

The Stubborn Forest: 'Impressive, memorable and powerful' - Martin Mooney, The North

'Hyland's most compelling poems bear witness not only to the past's "renaissance" but also to language's capacity for renewal' – Michael O'Neill, Poetry Review

Kicking Sawdust: 'Brilliantly conceived and expressed, though the brilliance is mysterious' - Anne Born, Tears in the Fence

'Scrupulous in angle, sympathy and tone - his poems are unstrained, carefully judged and razory' - Alan Riach, Lines Review