Somewhere Something is Burning Issa J Boullata

Somewhere Something is Burning Issa J BoullataAn examination of solitude and absence, the poems within this collection grapple with the reality and taboo of loneliness pitted against an anxiety of connecting. Exploring human relationships, breakdown in communication, and silence self inflicted or otherwise the poems give voice to the fears and experiences that shape us, and interrogate the ways in which we process and avoid. Frecknalls leaps of surreality, extreme empathy and vivid imagery make

a newfound love of running offers release and redemption

the crypt with its glowing alabaster sarcophagus of Seti I

To accompany the show

bigger than any he’d made before

and a spotlight on three Baltic poets

free verse and in traditional forms

diverse in subject and tone

she explores the largely unmapped territories of loss

fragments of memoir

one novel (Baltimore) and four books of short stories

Harris makes no attempt to write conventional fictional reconstructions of an ethnographic kind

ancient chalk figures and eerie suburbs: the ruins of prehistoric pasts and utopian futures