Fall of the Rebel Angels: Poems 1996-2006 brings together the best of Andy Brown's poems from the first ten years of his publications. Through his light-touch exploration of our sense of selves, public and private, Brown's work explores ideas of `relationship' in its widest senses -

the ecology of the natural world and our relationship to it

the intimacy and intricacies of personal relationships

the relationships between language and experience, memory, imagination and reality

Informed by philosophies of Critical Realism, Brown's poetry explores pertinent environmental and philosophic ideas, combining ontological inquiry with accessible lyric language and form, subtle humour, and a direct engagement with the `thing-ness' of the world.