___________________________________ ‘A singular achievement.’ Michael Donkor, Guardian ‘This story is brave and moving.’ Kate Kellaway, Observer ‘Heartbreaking, important and original.’ Christie Watson, ...
Writing on Lorna Goodison’s poetry, Derek Walcott asks ‘What is the rare quality that has gone out of poetry that these marvellous poems restore? Joy.’ Goodison has served as the Poet Laureate of Jamaica and published twelve volumes of ...
Robert Selby's debut collection, The Coming-Down Time, has just been published by Shoestring Press. This is the eleventh poem from the book's long sequence about Selby's late grandfather, 'East of Ipswich'.
The Big Guns
Memories, like poppies, are stirred by trauma.
At Doll’s funeral ...
