Andrew Staniland's "On The Senses And Other Poems" is a collection of 50 poems, drawing on Turkic-Persianate poetry and Central Asia in general for much of its inspiration. There are ruba'iyat and English ghazals, a poem about Uzbek students in Europe in the 1920s, and a reworking of a scene from Nizami's "Khosrow And Shirin", as well as poems about an unfolding story of spiritual experience, about events such as the ethnic cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh, and even about a poetry reading.