A Man's House Catches FireWhat to do when everything goes up in flames? Summon up A Man's House Catches Fire, Tom Sastry's debut collection of poetry, with all its elegant, satirical and hurt quenching power: here are nightmares and fairytales, museums full of regret, mis enchantments and magic for dark times. Whilst the accelerants of complicity and violence seep from these exacting poems, Sastry's wit and stoicism slake the bonfire of modern troubles. They defiantly ask us:

Here are stories of experience and imagination – of a man’s clothes taking on a life of their own

Every issue now we seem to be saying farewell to a well-known Arab literary figure

She has also had much competition success

The collection is a joy to read for its joyousness […] Taylor achieves something of happiness for both the writer and the reader

an exuberant play of words between the fire and tremors

including Saadi Yousef

Nula meets Bonnie

or shirts that suddenly 'speak' an elegiac chorus from a clothesline on the Gaza Strip

art and heritage of the cathedral from Roman times to the twenty-first century

Sleeper is a book about secrets and lies

it brings together the burlesque and the tragic

The lines sparkle like sharpened knives under the reflected light of glitter-balls