Across the Land and the Water brings together poems from throughout W.G.Sebald"s life, as well as additional works found after his death. Arranged chronologically, from his student days in the 1960s to the longer narratives he worked on from the 1980s onwards, these poems are suffused with the themes which dominated Sebald"s books. Here you will find subtle vignettes on nature and history, death and memory, journeys and landscapes, each short piece filled with insight, sensitivity and brilliance.