Wait for MeKonstantin Mikhailovich Simonov (1915 1979) was a Soviet novelist, playwright, editor and poet. During the Second World War he was a correspondent for the Red Army newspaper Red Star and reported on the liberation of Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Poland and Germany; he was present at the fall of Berlin. During the war he wrote two books of poems, War and With You and Without You, which contained a series of love poems addressed to his wife, the

Since 2004 Penned in the Margins has produced

We witness the fading of this love with the passage of time and changing of circumstances

shortly after

Though by no means a reactionary tract for the time

he has given hundreds of talks on crime fiction to library

Peter Richardson presents images of what it was like for the community during the final days of clearance

Metcalf was born in Carlisle and emigrated to Canada as a young man

He is a specialist teacher for students with learning disabilities

Eliot and various American Beat Generation poets into Latvian

which is "the ultimate underside of

an acute empathy with troubled childhoods and adolescence offers adult readers a rewarding reconnection with the turbulence of earlier selves

Seaway: New & Selected Poems gathers together 80 poems and is the first full retrospective of a poetry career that spans over two decades