As its title suggests, The Mind is an exploration in poetry of our mental and emotional worlds. John FitzGerald's third collection drifts through various stages and states of being, with unusual, often indescribable but always mesmerising consequences.

The poems are philosophical; emotions are set against the 'objective' consciousness of the mind. The result is a deep exploration of what it means to be human.

John FitzGerald is a lawyer for the disabled who writes in every spare moment. In the past he has been Development Director for Red Hen Press and Book Editor at Cider Press Review. His first two books of poetry are Spring Water (2005) and Telling Time by the Shadows (2008), both published by Turning Point. A dual citizen of the United States and Ireland, he now lives in Los Angeles, California.