Jos Smith is a poet, author, editor and researcher based in Exeter in Devon. He was born in Canterbury, Kent in 1980 and has lived in Liverpool and Nottingham as well. His poetry has appeared in a range of UK magazines, pamphlets, and anthologies and explores the creative possibilities of our imaginative relationship with landscape and place.

Subterranea is a first collection of poetry by Jos Smith that explores the relationship of our human world to the earth that underpins it. At times delicate and curious, at times painfully unbalanced, it is a relationship of always precarious intimacy, and one that is often most vividly apprehended in the imagination. Subterranea is a collection that measures its own poetic form against the earth's resistance, knowing full well that if there is to be any relationship at all something must give in us; that perhaps there might even be an art to this giving.