Casual Ties first appeared in the USA in 1983, and a second edition was published in 2010. This was in fact Wevill's first publication since 1973's Where the Arrow Falls, a major poetry collection, but this volume contains indefinable short prose: short stories, flash fiction, metafiction, prose poems - all of these descriptions might apply, and it is high time that they appear outside the USA for the first time. The volume appears as part of a thorough-going series of republications of Wevill's work here at Shearsman, covering all of his original poetry and translations, as well as this short prose collection.