Spoils Abdulaziz Al Farsi

Spoils Abdulaziz Al FarsiIn Spoils James Brookes advances a lyrical, frank and unsparing consideration of the England in which we find ourselves. While retaining the historical interest and folkloric reinvention of his spectacular debut Sins of the Leopard, Brookes has clarified his poetic concerns into the less comfortable questions of freedom and liberty. In this new book his praise of the achievements of one figure is necessarily tempered by a curt frustration at the lives

just out of prison

Electricity Comes to Cocoa Bottom takes the reader on a journey of light

Jan Carson wrote a story on the back of a postcard and mailed it to a friend

editor and professor

collection of beasts created by sound-play

In the new poems from Children of the Morning there is both a focus on the lives of the young

Financial Times

of healing

Henry VIII and Isabella d’Este enjoy a clandestine encounter

INTERVIEW with Edwar al-Kharrat

Kate Wakeling’s first book of poems for children is full of curious characters and strange situations

Tony Bianchi was born and grew up in North Shields