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The H.D. Book , by Robert Duncan. Ed. by Michael Bougtm & Victor Coleman. University of California Press. $49.95. If you're an English teacher, you'll know a certain type of [...]

Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty , by Tony Hoagland. Graywolf Press. $15.00. Romey's Order , by Atsuro Riley. The University of Chicago Press. $14.00. One way that poets [...]

Third Wish Wasted, by Roddy Lumsden. Bloodaxe Books. 7.95 [pounds sterling]. Selected Poems, by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin. Wake Forest University Press. $12.95. The Sun-fish, by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin. Gallery Books. [...]

Selected Poems, by James Fenton. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. $14.00. This selection of James Fenton's poems begins with promising force. During the seventies, when so many poets lost themselves to [...]

Considering the Radiance: Essays on the Poetry of A. R. Ammons edited by David Burak and Roger Gilbert New York: W.W. Norton, 2005. 365 pages Near the end of his [...]

The Cradle Place, by Thomas Lux. Houghton Mifflin. $22.00. Thomas Lux's nineteenth book of poems, The Cradle Place, turns poetry into performance. Lux must have found a method while writing [...]

Digressions on Some Poems by Frank O'Hara, by Joe LeSueur. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. $25.00. In 1945 Joe LeSueur returned from Europe as a decorated hero. The story of his [...]

by Adam Kirsch. Ivan R. Dee. $18.95. Announced by the clacking gavel of The New Criterion, whose poetry contest he won, Adam Kirsch stands before us ready to testify on [...]

by Tom Paulin. Faber & Faber. $22.00. If scandal really makes the best publicity, then Tom Paulin could flourish in PR. Last year alone the Northern Irish poet and Oxford [...]

by Frederick Seidel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. $22.00. Frederick Seidel has a formula, and it goes like this: a speaker stands in the middle of some urban nightmare; he speaks [...]

by Medbh McGuckian. Wake Forest University Press. $19.95. The poems in Medbh McGuckian's The Soldiers of Year II have a strong sense of inevitability. Even in the poet's more impressionist [...]

Raising the Dead, by Ron Rash. Iris Press. $12.00. The poems in Ron Rash's Raising the Dead present an impressive weave of sound and sense. Rash is that rare poet [...]

Abstract Background Needs-based resource allocation is fundamental to equitable care provision, which can meet the often-complex, fluctuating needs of people with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME). This has posed challenges both for those providing and those seeking support providers, in building shared understanding of the condition and of actions to address it. This qualitative study reports on needs for equity in health and social care expressed by adults living with CFS/ME. Methods The participants were 35 adults with CFS/ME in England, purposively selected to provide variation in clinical presentations, social backgrounds and illness experiences. Accounts of experienced needs and needs-related encounters with health and social services were obtained through a focus group (n = 6) and semi-structured interviews (n = 35). These were transcribed and needs related topics identified through data-led thematic analysis. Findings Participants emphasised needs for personalised, timely and sustained support to alleviate CFS/ME impacts and regain life control, in three thematic areas: (1) Illness symptoms, functional limitations and illness management; (2) practical support and social care; (3) financial support. Access of people with CFS/ME to support from health and social services was seen to be constrained by barriers stemming from social, cultural, organisational and professional norms and practices, further heightened for disadvantaged groups including some ethnic minorities. These reduced opportunities for their illness to be explained or associated functional limitations and social disadvantages to be addressed through social support. Participants sought more understanding of bio-psycho-social aspects of CFS/ME, of felt needs of people with CFS/ME and of human rights and disability rights, for providing person-centred, equitable care. Conclusions Changes in attitudes of health practitioners, policy makers and general public and more flexibly organised health and social care provision are needed to address equity issues in support needs expressed by people with CFS/ME, to be underpinned by research-based knowledge and communication, for public and professional education. Policy development should include shared decision-making and coordinated action across organizations working for people with CFS/ME, human rights and disadvantaged groups. Experiences of people with CFS/ME can usefully inform an understanding of equity in their health and social care.