Deltas Michael Strunge

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