The God ThingHope hurts me, prickles like blood returning. In her third collection, Susan Millar DuMars writes with compassion and clarity about the terminal illness and death of a family member. The poems question and rage, and find unexpected moments of humour and buoyancy. DuMars looks for God in the stories of the Bibles women; in the transcendent paintings of Matisse and the soulful images of Edward Hopper; in the transience of cities, and the freedom and

keeps us awake:

criss-cross

It spans the generations of literary voices

to hold you in their hands

She writes about these with the same tenderness and sensitivity that she writes about the wide range of people that pass through her world - all marked by the human mix of the heroic and the pathetic

Fakhri Saleh

They discuss issues of expectation and surprise

‘This one will break a few hearts

Sinan Anton

Her work has appeared nationally and internationally in literary magazines and anthologies

Grenada Morning and The Forsaken Lover (for which he was awarded the Martin Luther King Prize)

With Abbas Miah