An Upside Down World Buthayna al-Nasiri"In the early 1990s, in his volume The Bears And Other Poems, Knute Skinner embarked on an extraordinary poetic project ? the elaboration of short poetic fictions. In the intervening years he has become a master of this charged and compelling form. These short poems are exquisitely compressed narratives delineating and exposing lives often within a relational context. The narrators are a diverse bunch: adulterers, deviants, adventurers, lovers,
about the mysteries of Mayan culture and the beauty of the small country known as the ‘Land of Trees’
suspicious of a young man that suddenly appears in town
sing to the land
a chorus of voices coming together in dialogue and potential unity in the Dear Green Place that is - or might be - Glasgow
In this important anthology of poetry and art
possess a tremendous warmth
This version was written alongside similar re-imaginings of several Old English poems
a new angle on a writer or a political position you thought you already knew about
incorporates passages from Boccaccio's introductory description and imagines how the whole collection might have started
her poems ooze confidence and shine a light on human ecstasy and sadness with blinding precision
Marianne Munk
his circle of fellow artists and the books he published to give a full and rounded account of a man whose work is currently enjoying a well-deserved renaissance
