MacSonnetries Jean Day

MacSonnetries Jean DayA collection of 154 sonnets reflecting on love, death, marriage and economic theory, each taking its inspiration from Shakespeare's 154. These poems have wit and a kick coming from a middle aged woman in the middle of Scotland in the twenty first century.

there is winner Sheikha Helawy and finalists Sofiene Rajab

and the first edition was widely reviewed and praised

His collected edition Fifty Years: Poems 1957-2007

voice in UK poetry

Gill McEvoy

Dorothy tells the complete story of a Yorkshire woman

Her latest book The Lavender House (2007) is due its paperback release from Headline September 2008

At the heart of the book is an extraordinary alphabetical sequence about the Grenfell Tower dead and the society that allowed them to die

or wants to be her

the party and its leaders - from Mao Zedong in the early years to Xi Jinping today - have overcome an array of existential challenges

It is a novel that has recently been republished as a Penguin Modern Classic

and Olja Kne