Country of Warm Snow (Shearsman), a collection of poems by Mervyn Taylor, “seeks to represent the duality of a life lived in two places at once” — those two places being Trinidad, the island of the poet’s birth, and the United States, where he has lived for most of the past five decades. “To combat the geographical dislocation,” writes the publisher, “there arises the invention of an impossible land, a country of the imagination, a snow that is beautiful and warm.” The book was chosen as an official recommendation by the UK Poetry Society.