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In August 1981, on his way from one job in Kuwait to another in Tokyo, Paul Rossiter travelled for a month in Sri Lanka. Coconut Palms and Sandalwood Boxes is a book-length episodic poem that traces a journey from the old Dutch fortified town of Galle in the south-west of the island, through the centre - Colombo, Kandy and Nuwara Eliya, with their echoes of the British colonial era - and on to the north-east and the ruined cities of the ancien...

The first edition of The Painting Stick, gathering poems written in 1991-2002, was published by Peter Robinson's Pine Wave Press in Sendai, Japan, in 2005. A few of the poems have been revised for this expanded edition, which also includes eleven previously uncollected poems written during the same period. The book begins with a series of prose pieces, which are followed by poems with various European (especially Italian and Greek) settings, p...

Paul Rossiter arrived in Japan in 1981, and during the next decade he rarely returned to Europe, instead setting out to see as much of East and South East Asia as he could. On Arrival gathers the writing that was one result of that curiosity. It includes poems from the Philippines, South Korea, Indonesia, and Thailand, as well as one each from the USA and Australia, while the title section of the book consists of 'notebook poems' recording inc...

Between 1968 and 1978 Paul Rossiter lived in London, Tokyo, Scotland, and the English Lake District. Apart from three poems from 1969 set in Japan and collected in From the Japanese (Isobar, 2013), Seeing Sights gathers all of his poems up to 1978. After opening with a version of the Old English 'Seafarer' and a poem each from Cambodia and India, the ambience becomes distinctly northern, with the mountains of the Lake District being an abiding...

Not a book of English translations of Japanese poems (although it does include versions of haiku by Basho and by the contemporary haiku master Natsuishi Ban'ya), but rather a series of 'translations' of the experience of a long-term British resident of Tokyo, it also acknowledges the personal and cultural gifts received 'from the Japanese' over the last forty or more years. The poems by Paul Rossiter collected here range in time from a version...

The Pleasures of Peace gathers recent poems by Paul Rossiter, mostly written on the move in 2018-19, and concerned with such matters as Pythagoras, The Tempest, Westray and Papa Westray, a Neolithic house, biscuits and oatcakes, seabirds in flight, a hot spring in Akita, big seas and snow rollers, jazz in Tokyo, elegiac memory, Kamakura in February, the other side of the world, Isamu Noguchi, a feat of archery at the Battle of Yashima (1185),...

Paul Rossiter's previous book, Seeing Sights 1968-1978, was mostly set in the mountains of northern England and Scotland, Ian Brinton described it as a 'beautifully crafted volume', with poems that 'bear excellent comparison' with some of the early work of Gary Snyder. The story is continued in a more urban key in Temporary Measures, which gathers poems from 1978 to 1981. The poems are mostly set in London, with excursions westwards in England...

World Without, the fifth collection of poetry by Paul Rossiter, gathers writing from 2008-2015. The title section of the book celebrates music, ancestors, places and occasions in Japan, England, Greece and Italy, this is followed by 'Landscapes', a sequence of largely elegiac poems, 'Found in Transcription', poems created from pre-existing texts, ranging from seventeenth-century descriptions of Cornwall to Piet Mondrian's letters from London i...

Understanding the origin of electrical properties of alloys is critical to the development of new materials. Dr. Rossiter blends theoretical and experimental results without relying on detailed quantum mechanics. After introducing the basic concepts of atomic and magnetic correlations, he explains their microstructural consequences. Later chapters deal with the effects of such correlations on electrical resistivity. Examples and applications a...