Kingdom of Gravity Sudeep Sen

Kingdom of Gravity Sudeep SenIn direct narrative terms the poems in this collection relate to the horrors of the civil war that ousted the brutal tyranny of Idi Amin in Uganda, a war of liberation that brought its own barbarous atrocities. In political terms the poems chart the impact of imperialism and neo colonialism that lay behind those traumas in the life of the nation. In personal terms, the poems are framed between the contrary pulls of attachment and flight, exile and

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2012) and the novella Boris by the Sea (Octopus Books

Raman Mundair’s second collection of poems sees her expanding her territory to create a new poetic geography

everyone asked with their eyes

Cover artist: Azzawi

A version of Dante

The awareness of the characters is shot through with Guyanese images

Wandering Ulysses was trapped in my slick:

Elma Napier was born in Scotland in 1892

Holly lives in 2009

Rainer Franz Teuschl

she was well-placed to observe and listen