The Visitations Maher Menzalji

The Visitations Maher MenzaljiThe Visitations is the follow up to Kathryn Simmonds Forward Prize winning debut, Sunday at the Skin Launderette. The poems are entertaining, amusing and accessible, but unafraid to bring in darker themes and worlds unseen. The tone shifts throughout between the elegiac and the sharply satirical, lit up with lifes moments of sudden illumination: a life coach finds an old passport, an infant teeters on the brink of speech. This playful and knowing

a party in which there are ‘little knots of memory and people – too sober to meet strangers

She now works at the Institute of Education as does Karen Mears

Ann Featherstone works at the University of Manchester

Slow walks

the difficulties of remaining oneself while

The Greek Anthology

prostitutes and pimps

Halperin’s uniquely conversational poetic mode is known to those who have followed his ‘late arrival’ beginning with the seminal Anniversary (2010

Mok’s shared passion in life with literature

Hannah Silva is a poet and playwright

a depressive personality

are published by Five Leaves