Sandpaper and SeahorsesFrom Costa Rica to Japan, Somerset to Cumbria, and taking in Antarctica too, with oceans and islands as seen from a small boat, John Froys second collection draws its concerns from human vulnerability and ecological anxiety. Straightforward and direct, these poems take on loss, both personal and global, but they bring to it a joy in creation, as well as humour, gratitude, admiration and love.

which West Indians know of but cannot always communicate

is a highly individual collection of humorous/serious poems centred on the experience of stuttering and speech therapy

her poems frequently appear in magazines like Acumen

or when we no choice but to stay put

and an introduction by the author – ‘why I (still) write’

Bae Suah mixes the cerebral and the pungently physical

ISBN: 9781906601034)

Why has Elly such power over them all

In Fairground Magician

Stepney Words

retuned to an age of chaos theory

the late Moroccan poet Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine