A Reading Scrapbook Wole Soyinka

A Reading Scrapbook Wole SoyinkaHistorical ephemera gives us a fascinating glimpse into everyday life in Reading in centuries past. In this book David Cliffe uses surviving pieces of ephemera from the collections held in the Department of Typography at the University of Reading and the Local Studies section at Reading Central Library as a starting point for a marvellous and discursive journey into the history of the town. Going back over the last 300 years and more, these scraps of

translated by Rachel McNicholl

*A Poetry Book Society Special Commendation*

who died so suddenly in February

A diagram of dead ends

Pyramid Texts by Gamal al-Ghitani translated by Humphrey Davies

in the recounting of memoirs

a frequent criticism

Dewi Roberts

Through childhood snacks

but who is the strange young man who keeps getting them out of trouble

and a veteran of London’s late ’90s club scene

It’s the 25th Century and the British Space Empire faces the gathering menace of the evil ant-soldiers of the Ghast hive