Homelands Peter Cole

Homelands Peter ColeHomelands is the first collection by Wales based poet Eric Ngalle Charles. Part one focuses on his childhood in the West African state of Cameroon. The poems often resound with warmth and humour, fond memories of sitting in his mothers kitchen, of making toys out of leaves. We sense the beauty of the landscape and become one of the crowd of children who follow the aunties tea plucking on plantations. We also meet some of the darker deities from the

place and belonging: an underlying connection to the earth of Ness' home

Uncle Wil is aging and the children

even Snakes and Ladders – but is just as keen to share with the reader some sense of how his point of view has been constructed

In other stories

marks van de Kamp's extraordinary achievement

PLUS a searing memoir

celebrating twenty years of publishing 1987–2007

organised religion or sexual mutilation

David Belbin – author of Love Lessons

Amina Saïd

Drawing on logger folklore

he prays for the grace to "go with the flow"