Shy White TigerRichard W. Halperins follow up to Anniversary draws inspiration from the visionary, matter of fact magic of some of the worlds great literary traditions: Irish, Russian, French, Jewish. Each poem is a portal into other stories: from Padraic Colums The King of Irelands Son to the Talmud to Sunset Boulevard. And looming large is the constant, powerful presence of the poets wife and mother. Richard Halperin must have lodged for a time with the sea charts

with many of the authors creating narratives of continuous and diverse dialogues on many levels – person to person

Stephen Watts

1923) was born in Cardiff and studied Medicine at Cardiff

In its plurality it faces and opposes all fundamentalisms

"We are offered London as a test case for a new diversity of means and manner

Boullata is a Palestinian author

based loosely on the life of Kate O'Brien

and has been dangerous (and productive) in that sense

written for television and provided columns for The Western Mail and Planet

his poems take on the age of consumerism and

A Tour of Your Country takes the reader from the American West to the Arctic to Wall's native Wexford

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