Goliat Daniel Kane

Goliat Daniel KaneGoliat is the second collection by Rhiannon Hooson, a follow up to her Wales Book of the Year shortlisted debut The Other City. The poems are sumptuous, full of vivid imagery from the natural world woven with pointed observations that chime with contemporary themes, including social issues and climate emergency. Goliat is the name of an oil field in the Barents Sea, and the Russian for Goliath: a whale, a giant, a monster. The title poem is in the

Like Stevie Smith she writes children's rhymes for grown-ups

Phil in Creative Writing from Trinity College

the poems ask what we can do to prepare ourselves for a future that edges a little closer every day

He won’t have schools

like me" – in the assault on equality and justice

Nikita Aashi Chadha

politically-aware and vital book

Speechless

the next high

who include Hamdy Abowgliel with an excerpt from his novel Thieves in Retirement

and the philosophical parables of Borges’s Fictions and Calvino’s Cosmicomics

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