A Land Girl's Tale Marina TsvetaevaI can see the disgust on the face of one neighbor when Jack, the farmer, asked to lend a man, produced a land girl. Mona Macleod worked in Kirkubrightshire during the second World War, providing the skilled labour needed on farms before mechanization. The girls were given heavy agricultural work in fields, with animals, carrying hundred weight sacks, sawing wood, felling trees, filling up rat holes. It was a tough way to grow up, but this illustrated
Wall engages robustly and ironically with the contemporary American and Irish worlds
Poetry in Four dimensions
What about the politics of the word
This late collection
the two young women are drawn into a series of events that leave the small town wondering who exactly Sylvie is and what strange gift she is hiding
translated by Adnan and Paula Haydar
The Transmigration of Bodies is a noirish tragedy and a tribute to those bodies – loved
Sahera Khan
It is a collection that abounds in loss
He is the author of several poetry collections
Great intellectual and fighter for justice and humanity
The beleaguered Chinese forces must rally for a desperate last stand fought across salt and sand
