...really informative and up to date... Liz Rowlinson, A Place in the Sun logical, useful and just the right amount of information... Alfredo Bloy, Euro Weekly News ...required reading... Martin Dell, Kyero.com ...it's like the moving to Spain Bible... Justin Aldridge, EyeonSpain.com ...invaluable... Jack Troughton, Round Town News ...excellent... Roy Wickman, Costa Blanca News ...up to date, in-depth and comprehensive... Vanessa Roccetta, Expatica.com ...everything you need to know... Hannah Murray, Talk Radio Europe ...packed to the seams with essential information. Keidi Keating, The Sentinella ...a critically important guide... Steve Hall, ThisisSpain.com Penetrating and uncompromising...consistently clear, practical advice... Mark Eastwood, costablancauncovered.com 80,000 words - 325 pages 26 sections. Plus over 160 vital Spanish Terms and Definitions Plus Useful Contacts 9 highly qualified, professional contributors (Spanish and British) Written by a Spanish industry 'insider' and professional author. CONTENTS 1. TO MOVE OR NOT TO MOVE 2. WHY MOVE - TO SPAIN? 3. LOCATION - LOCATION - LOCATION 4. BASIC SPANISH LAND LAW 5. THE NATURE OF SPANISH HOUSING 6. TYPES OF PROPERTY IN SPAIN 7. CHOOSING YOUR SPANISH PROPERTY 8. FINDING YOUR PROPERTY IN SPAIN 9. THE SPANISH PROPERTY PROFESSIONALS 10. ENABLING 11. NEGOTIATING THE DEAL 12. THE LEGAL PROCESS 13. LOOSE ENDS 14. CONSTRUCTION PROBLEMS 15. WORK IN SPAIN 16. HEALTHCARE 17. SPANISH SCHOOLS AND EDUCATION IN SPAIN 18. DOMESTIC ANIMALS AND WILDLIFE 19. VEHICLES, MOTORING AND TRANSPORT 20. LETTING YOUR SPANISH PROPERTY 21. MONEY AND PENSIONS 22. RESIDENCY 23. WILLS AND INHERITANCE TAX 24. CONTRACTS AND DISPUTES 25. THE SPANISH POLICE AND EMERGENCY SERVICES 26. IN PERSPECTIVE TERMS AND DEFINITIONS FURTHER INFORMATION CONTRIBUTORS THE AUTHOR Nick Snelling (the author of 'How to Buy Spanish Property and Move to Spain - Safely ) has had five books published, including three about Spain. He lives permanently in Spain and is an acknowledged expert on Spanish property, life in Spain and moving to Spain and he runs Culturespain.com, an information site on all things Spanish. He has appeared on radio and television and has written numerous articles about Spain.

Shortly before her death, philosopher Gillian Rose began work on a new book, her Paradiso, thus fulfilling her promise at the end of Love's Work to 'stay in the fray, in the revel of ideas and risk'. Confident even only a week before her death that she could complete the work, all that remains are these fragments. In them, Rose combines the detached insight of one who is taking leave, or who has almost left, with a desire to participate in the joys of life until the last. Exceeding the injunction to 'keep your mind in hell and despair not', Paradiso sketches a movement through the hell and despair of terminal illness to an affirmation of the joys of companionship and memory. Paradiso contains some of Rose's most serene and affirmatory writing, and in that light completes one of the most remarkable philosophical oeuvres of the late twentieth century.

Welten (Worlds) is a cycle of poems written in the second half of 1937 by Gertrud Kolmar, who was to perish six years later in Auschwitz. In 1947, the manuscript was passed by her brother-in-law to Peter Suhrkamp, publisher at Suhrkamp Verlag - now Germany's premier literary press - and was one of the first books to appear from that press after the war.

With Welten Gertrud Kolmar invented new landscapes for her century. These rich, heartrendingly beautiful poems couched in long, seemingly relaxed lines, manage to be both alien and intimate, celebratory and tragic, contemplative and dangerous.

An unidentified woman with a child in her arms comes to a dark city. In a misty wood the poet and someone meet an angel who doesn't see them because, as she describes him, er nur ist - his existence is as definite and as indecipherable as the moss and the trees.

The poet recommends patience in her findings, is not afraid of ghostly ruins, knows longing all too well, loves the everyday - clouds, roses, a bowl of soup-and wonders what exists in closed gardens. She has inhabited loneliness, notes animals familiar and legendary - a dog, a unicorn, wild goats - and shows tenderly how the fact of love can even blot out the fear of death.

The translators have brought most successfully into English the astonishing experiences recorded here in lines which sometimes glow with jewels, sometimes alarm the reader under a threatening midnight, at other times move consolingly along recognisable paths which nonetheless contain surprise. They have conveyed Gertrud Kolmar's relish of the known and her delight in the unusual with no sense of strain. All the novelty, the daring, the varied tones of the original survive in this transition of language by their skill and fellow-feeling. This has obviously been a labour of love. -Harry Guest.

If you write out The Poems of Emily Dickinson and erase some of the letters very neatly and precisely, you can get to The ms of m y kin - the manuscript of my kin, as it were; the manuscript of my family. It might also be said to be the manuscript of my kind. The practice of erasure was most famously accomplished (and perhaps invented) by the British artist Tom Phillips in his book A Humument (an erasure of a Victorian novel titled A Human Document) and later, by the American poet Ronald Johnson, who erased Milton's Paradise Lost into a book called Radi os. In Phillips's books-he did more than one version of A Humument-the artist created paintings over each page of the novel, reserving only certain words that told a different story than did the original work. (A new character, called Toge, emerged from the word together, for example.) Johnson, a poet, simply removed the words he did not wish to use as if whiting them out-the remaining words stood in the same relationship to each other as they did in the original poem. (Janet Holmes)

Transit becomes an act of transcendence in Mary Austin Speaker's The Bridge. I love how each section of the book ends almost where it begins, how the world comes as it goes, flash after flash - and just when things begin to blur we awake to astonishing / geometry, to an awareness that ascent is only a way / toward another opening. The Bridge limns with unmatched grace the internal and external process of daily passage. -Joseph Massey

A history submerged in the ever-shifting currents of the ocean emerges in this debut collection by Richard Georges. These poems craft narratives of long forgotten migrations, shipwrecks, and the personal with a vivid and sensual aesthetic that is located in the contested spaces between the sea and the shore.

The voice is placid, and leaves no print of self-conscious style and ego but rather the poems themselves, rolling softly up the beach and then sucking us into a greater history of the sea and our only and sometimes lonely selves-- our i-lands. --Vladimir Lucien

In these pages all roads lead to the sea. The poet never plots a route. Gods fall, forgotten paths return, poetry books break and glasses of water kill. Though the sea divides, it brings redemption. Georges shows all mankind to be one author. His beauteous poems rise like coral islands. Justice is done. --Andre Bagoo

Singing 'light into bleakness, ' in vivid poetic language that shakes us out of apathy, Georges' harsh and lyrical hymns portray the painful beauty of the Virgin Islands and Caribbean archipelago. --Loretta Collins Klobah

Over 200 million people currently live abroad; more than 50 million are temporary residents, intending to return to their country of origin. Misunderstood explores the impact international life can have on the children of such families - while they live overseas, when they return, and as they mature into adults. Similarities in their shared experiences (regardless of the different countries in which they have lived) create a safe space of comfort and understanding. Tanya Crossman introduces this space - the Third Culture - through the personal stories of hundreds of individuals. Whether you grew up overseas, are raising children overseas, or know a family living abroad, Misunderstood will equip you with insights into the international experience, along with practical suggestions for how to offer meaningful care and support.

Recent years have seen the arrival of new approaches to writing about landscape. Partly to do with new eco-sensibilities, this is however also due to a realisation that landscape writing need not be confined to literary tourism, or the verbal equivalent of chocolate-box imagery, and to the injection of radical poetic styles. The Ground Aslant is the first volume to engage with this new wave of writing, and presents the work of Tony Baker, Elisabeth Bletsoe, Thomas A. Clark, Ian Davidson, Mark Dickinson, Mark Goodwin, Nicholas Johnson, Peter Larkin, Helen Macdonald, Wendy Mulford, Frances Presley, Peter Riley, Colin Simms, Zo Skoulding, Harriet Tarlo, Carol Watts.

Jennifer Clement studied English Literature and Anthropology at New York University and French Literature in Paris. Clement is the author of the memoir 'Widow Basquiat', which made the UK Booksellers' Choice list, and a novel 'A True Story Based on Lies', which was a finalist in the Orange Prize for Fiction. She was awarded the Canongate Prize for New Writing in 2001, and is also the author of several books of poetry: 'The Next Stranger', 'Newton's Sailor', and 'Lady of the Broom', each published in bilingual editions in Mexico. Clement's work has been translated into eight languages. Canongate Books is publishing her next novel 'The Poison That Fascinates' in 2008. Jennifer Clement lives in Mexico City and, with her sister Barbara Sibley, is co-director and -founder of the annual San Miguel Poetry Week. The present volume offers several new poems, the complete 'Lady of the Broom' sequence, plus selections from her two earlier books.

Fully updated and revised, with additional 30 pages of photographs and epilogue. Ruth van Reken describes herself as 'a person in process' - someone whose life is made up of the continuous interplay between her inner and outer journey. For more than twenty-five years, Ruth has traveled to over 45 countries sharing what she has learned while 'listening to life' about the often paradoxical nature of growing up globally. What she has learned resonates with expatriate children and adults from all sectors - corporate, diplomatic, military, missionary, immigrant and refugees. Born and raised in Nigeria as the daughter of American missionaries, at age 39 Ruth needed to understand why, despite a life filled with rich experiences, a meaningful spiritual component, and family and friends who loved her, she often battled a secret depression. Through the journaling that became this book, she discovered that the very goodness of her life kept her from dealing with some of the challenges that also come with a global lifestyle - the realities of chronic cycles of separation and loss, reentry, and questions of identity. How could there be any struggles when she loved her childhood world so much? As a way of examining this 'other side' of her story, Ruth's began to write many letters home such as the girl known as Miss Question Box might have written. This book contains her story from ages six to thirty-nine. Today, in her mid-sixties, renowned internationally for her compassion, knowledge and insight into what it means to be a child growing up among worlds, van Reken, looks back over her life and adds a fascinating and reflective epilogue to a memoir that has already sold 32,000 copies and has helped and inspired its readers. Journaling has always been Ruth's first port in a storm. Writing her memoir this way is a natural part of her process. That she would also turn to her journal as a way of making sense of the cancer that knocked her 'out of line' for a couple of years, is no surprise. As she writes: This is the power of journaling - to see the obvious but not yet named places in life. Others who have experienced the many separations and losses in a childhood lived abroad will find Ruth's hurts their hurts, just as her healing becomes the beginning of their own. Norma M McCaig, Executive Director, Global Nomad's Society Ruth Van Reken takes off all the spiritual masks and lets you look down into the deepest struggles of her soul. Phil Troyer, HCJB, Quito, Ecuador

In this accomplished first collection, Erica McAlpine draws truths from the everyday, meditating over contingency and luck and the often-vexed relationship we have to these things. The casual register of her verse belies its formal complexity. Many of the poems are crafted in tight syntactical units of just one or two sentences; others are composed in rhyming sapphics, a meter favoured by the poet Horace, whose guiding voice recurs throughout the collection. Humorous and serious in turn, these quietly virtuosic poems achieve lofty aims: to teach, to advise, to warn - to show, in the manner of a close friend, what the world has to offer, what it sometimes takes away, and what can and should matter most.

Poetry is the antagonist of denial. Complicating the familiar world purely with the evidence of eye and insight, it insists upon the Spirit of things, even as life desolates our spirits with coarse familiarity. Pam Rehm, in this magnificent book of Showings, reveals new content and new contours in the breaking day. Her voice is a guide and guarantor. --Donald Revell

Love is not consolation, writes the philosopher Simone Weil, it is light. Time Will Show shows to what degree that revelatory claim is right. Suspended between / patience and language, Pam Rehm returns us, poem by necessary poem, back to the true and ordinary rigors of poetic attention--true because they usher us into the various forms of daily intimacy, ordinary because her slow engagement with life itself realizes a soul lurks in all things of this world, and nothing can be discounted. To see ourselves as a part of the world rather than apart from it means we must, as this poet does, Notice everything / Understand little. Then the tender heart grows woundable again, then innocence persists in the daily patterns--turning off a light to go to bed, waking to the light that turns itself on. The sun is one such light. So is love. And when here Love goes deeper down, we find ourselves in luck, for the poet has a lantern to guide us in, the kind light of these brilliant poems. --Dan Beachy-Quick.

The House of Leaves was first published by Black Sparrow Press in Santa Barbara in 1976, and was a significant statement of intent by Nathaniel Tarn - alongside his New Directions volume, Lyrics for the Bride of God - which set the tone for what he wanted to achieve now as an American poet after his emigration from England. This new edition repeats the entire original volume and is revived here as part of the Shearsman Library series, which is devoted to recovering significant out-of-print, or hard-to-find editions of modern poetry.

In 1925, Fernando Pessoa wrote a guidebook to Lisbon for English-speaking visitors, and wrote it in English. The typescript was only discovered amongst his papers long after his death, but has not hitherto been made available in the UK or the USA. The book is fascinating in that it shows us Pessoa's view of his native city - and Pessoa, as an adult, rarely left Lisbon, and it figures large in his poetry. The book can still be useful to visitors today, given that the majority of the sights described are still to be found. A fascinating scrap from the master's table....

Beast is the first collection in English from award-winning Catalan poet Irene Sol , a darkly imaged, startling and lyrically precise exploration of gender, identity, sexuality and multiple forms of desire.

Beast enters incisively, like claws. It arrives with gleaming fur and stinking. It's a creature that spills its guts and impels the same from others--peoples, animals, limbs, foodstuffs, logical thinking, familial and sexual relations. In Irene Sol 's scenes, there's nothing that isn't jammed together and insecure but what's constant is temperament. Beast comes swiftly, with a brazen laugh and cocked ears. Watch out when the lines pause for weird and possibly lethal detours. As Sol jolts, pulses and pushes off, she might leave the paths littered with bouquets or corpses. --Heather Phillipson

Sensuous, precise, and profoundly generous in their glimpses of strikingly private narratives, Sola's poems feel perfectly placed for the strange heat of our times... --Ben Rivers

After drinking orange blossom water until she vomited everything that she had inside her, the writer and artist Leonora Carrington wrote that her stomach was 'the mirror of the earth'. Sol 's Beast has a duckling in the belly; the words it makes her sick up are evil, brittle, full of feeling. I'm excited to see this translation from the Catalan unleashed on UK poetry. --Sophie Collins

Everyone's got a story to tell. If your story involves growing up among different cultures - either moving between them or having them move around you - then read this book. Growing up and transitioning cross-culturally can present unexpected challenges and bestow surprising skills. This is a book of adventures that helped me identify some of those challenges and realize some of those skills. Hopefully it can help you too - which is important because you've got more to contribute to the world than you realize. Once, down a dark alleyway, a struggling TCK bumped into a mysterious Zen master, a grinning comedian, and an author of thrillers. That alleyway and those personas reside at O'Shaughnessy's center. Get ready to grab your seat to steady your heart and to avoid falling over with laughter. Douglas W. Ota Author, Safe Passage: What Mobility Does to People & What International Schools Should Do About It I wish this book had been written when I was younger. Ruth E Van Reken Co-author, Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds O'Shaughnessy's does a marvelous job of covering the characteristics of the Third Culture Kid with riveting examples taken from his own life. Thanks for this valuable addition to the TCK literature and most importantly, the teen TCK. Lois J Bushong Author, Belonging Everywhere & Nowhere: Insights into Counseling the Globally Mobile O'Shaughnessy skillfully approaches cross-cultural upbringings and transitions with insight, compassion and humorous tales of identity, connection, community, belonging and resilience. Linda A Janssen, Author, The Emotionally Resilient Expat: Engage, Adapt and Thrive Across Cultures Every TCK who is a junior or senior in high school should read this book before going off to college or living on their own. Delana H Stewart, Education Consultant

My Moving Booklet is designed to help children through the initial stages of an upcoming move. Moving usually means going through quite a rollercoaster of feelings. It can be exciting and terrifying at the same time. It can be very sad to say goodbye, but it can also be incredibly fun to experience new things and meet new people. Everybody experiences a move differently, but it is very important that you are able to say goodbye properly. This will allow children to truly welcome the new challenges and adventures that lie ahead of them, together with their parents and teachers. In many parts of this booklet, they will have the opportunity to either write about it, to draw a picture, or to glue on a photograph. This is their own unique story that one day will serve as a keepsake of a life-changing event.

Orhan Veli Kanık (1914--1950), more commonly known as Orhan Veli, was a pioneering Turkish poet and one of the founding members of the Garip (Strange) movement. His innovative poetics wore a unique signature of austerity and accessibility. With arresting insight and playful irreverence Veli's poems transformed the Turkish literary world. When he died at the age of 36, he was acknowledged as one of the most important Turkish writers of his generation. Now, at last, this edition of The Complete Poems makes the full breadth of his achievement available in English for the first time. It brings together poems from the five collections published during the author's lifetime, as well as uncollected material from newspapers and magazines, and poems only published posthumously. The Complete Poems includes an informative introduction, endnotes, and chronology, placing the poems in their historical context and touching on many of the themes which shaped Orhan Veli's distinctive voice.

This volume brings back into print the complete poems of Veronica Forrest-Thomson (1947-1975), whose work remains a touchstone for those interested in radical British poetry in the 1970s. The book contains all of her published collections, plus poems that remained in manuscript, and also contains work that has come to light since the publication of the Collected Poems and Translations (1990) as well as a number of corrections to that edition.

Message (Mensagem) was the only book of verse in his own language that Pessoa saw through the press in his lifetime. On the face of it, a patriotic sequence steeped in 'Sebastianismo', the poems offer much more than this, the Kings and navigators of the Portugal's history standing as avatars of the poet's self, their explorations and heroic deeds projections of the poet's inner creative life. Although Pessoa is famous for the many heteronyms under which he composed verse in wildly different styles, this volume was published under his own name (the 'orthonym', as he defined it) and it remains one of his great masterpieces. This edition brings Jonathan Griffin's fine translation, originally published by the Menard Press in 1992, back into print, as part of Shearsman's Pessoa edition.