Deltas Michael StrungeLeonie Rushforths first book reveals a poetics on high alert, where the tireless human sonar scans a compromised world for calamity and grace. In her vision of precarity and connectedness, attention might prove the opposite of surveillance: a tender, sober act of keeping faith with the ethical force of exact expression. Her poems are provisional landscapes, like river deltas, where with language both sidelong and luminous she suggests a way of seeing
Comical and tragic by turns
With a scholarship to Oxford
and the woman who becomes his lover
Fatma Yousif al-Ali Two short stories
2008) was a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice
a beacon for independent literary publishing in the North
where the mentally unstable do sit-ups when nobody is watching and where heaven is a place between “the sky and the planets” reserved for those with personality disorders
The Trinidad of her stories is utterly contemporary but also a place defined by its folk mythologies and its cultural creations
Struggling with overwhelming grief and its consequential identity crisis
Nevil James is the former archivist at the Cathedral
Tishani Doshi
Nora Chassler's book-length poem The Minnow Would Be Lost is a deeply imaginative
