Providential Laila al-Juhni

Providential Laila al-JuhniColin Channers debut poetry collection achieves an intimate and lyric meditation on family, policing, loss, and violence, but the work is enlivened by humor, tenderness, and the rich possibilities that come from honest reflection. Combined with a capacity to offer physical landscapes with painterly sensitivity and care, a graceful mining of the nuances of Jamaican patwa and American English, and a judicious use of metaphor and similie, Providential is

at least in prose

held annually in West Kerry

Ibrahim Farghali and Nasrin Trabulsi

was a finalist in the People’s Book Prize in 2010

Blodeuedd is created from wild flowers by magic

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

translated by Stephen Watts

The word romiosini (ρωμιοσύνη) or ‘Greekness’ derives from the Byzantine idea that the Greeks are the true Romioi

These are not comfortable childhoods

photographer

Marc Connor

empathy and variety challenge the conventions of established drama