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 (from Poems of Z) as well as poems from other books including Domingus, The Stubborn Forest and Kicking Sawdust. 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.