Heavy Waters Clare Best

Heavy Waters Clare BestEd Lukers hotly anticipated collection Heavy Waters and is a mixture of poetic and prosaic workings on the sea, borders, and border violence. This edition comes with a foreword from Verity Spott, in which she writes that the book is: [a] collection of poetry that has resolved to speak of the terrifying crossings; the depth weighed up, the air weighed down human lives pushed and pulled, fleeing and returning in the crisis who longs for our silence, in

and of loving one’s neighbour without question – even when that neighbour is an addict

Ní Ghríofa engages in a strikingly physical way with the world of her subject

" Kate Clanchy

from easy midweek suppers and heart-warming comfort foods

strange and imaginative

Vesna Lemaic

Kitty Fitzgerald’s new fable is a highly readable mix of a strong story and a political

Woods is also one of the founder editors of the long-running literary journal Cyphers

supreme public critic of the post-colonial Caribbean

murderous fantasy and obsessions can be undercurrents even in the most ordinary of lives

having no internal toilets or bathrooms

the story follows eighteen-year-old Lillie Carrigan as she experiences first love with her lifelong friend