Balancing Act Veronika Krasnova

Balancing Act Veronika KrasnovaThe fifteenth in Five Leaves' series of debut poetry pamphlets by East Midlands writers. These poems explore one woman's attempts to juggle the roles of daughter, mother, grandmother, carer and human being. Tracing her inheritance as a Presbyterian minister's daughter and her childhood in Northern Ireland in the 1960s and 1970s, Elizabeth Dunford examines family relationships and how they change, including the gradual reversal of roles as parents live

world changers

––– Luke Williams

Pascale Petit The Banquet

She vows to save the country for her children to inherit – even if it costs her pride and her marriage

Where will everyone land

and often finding that neither has the words you need

its music grave and necessary as time

Zhang Qing keen to dive into the excitements of adolescence but clashes with repressive parents

was written to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Gustav Mahler’s birth and is based on his Fourth Symphony

the sports fields and wind turbines

the lyricism of these poems is juxtaposed with the traumatic

Peter King’s book ranks among the great jazz autobiographies