What Willow Says Format:Paperback

What Willow Says Format:PaperbackWinner of The Barbellion Prize 2021 Sharing stories of myths, legends and ancient bogs, a deaf child and her grandmother experiment with the lyrical beauty of sign language. Learning to communicate through their shared love of trees they find solace in the shapes and susurrations of leaves in the wind. A poignant tale of family bonding and the quiet acceptance of change.

plus a conversation between two women poets from Uruguay: Laura Chalar and Laura Cesarco Eglin discuss exile

Lauren Doughty

Stephen Watts Here and There: a Selection of Poems by Basim Furat

from 2000-2002

“Edward Kane

and a reminder of the extraordinary endurance and heroism of the Soviet people during a war in which we were allies against Nazi Germany

Through deceptively simple language

combining extracts from Scheynius’s diary – written in Swedish and translated by Saskia Vogel – with reflective essays written in English five years on

encompassing LGBTQ+ and Black history

three plays and countless newspaper and magazine articles

And suddenly everything was quite different

Arab poetry and the everyday horror of twenty-first century warfare