BEVERLIEY BRAUNE holds the degrees of Master of Philosophy in English from the University of the West Indies and Doctor of Creative Arts from the University of Wollongong. She is the author of many articles in journals and books, and two books of poetry. She has been an invitee to the European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies conference and a guest of the Melbourne Festival of Poetry, the Sydney Writers’ Festival at Varuna, the Queensland Poetry Festival and the Brisbane Writers’ Festival. She lives in Australia.

• Contents: The Companion Reader – Gaps and Critical Contexts – From Empty Helmets and a Few Bones – Who Is the Reader? And How Many of Us Are There? – Roman Ingarden’s Observer as Composer – Musical Chairs – Measures of Skaldic Poetry: What Does Metre Mean? – The Legibility of Contours – Commanding the Terrain of Lacunae – A Grammar of Secrets – Gíld-rac Manuscript – Rinaldi da Giacomo’s Argomento – The History: Books I– VII – The Successors: Books VIII– X.