BrinkBrink opens with its title poem and it stays on the brink of various worlds and conditions throughout. Most crucial is the brink between life and death, each of which is seen from the perspective of the other as in the great five part sequence Republic, showing how death is interwoven into life. But, precarious as the brink is, the unyieldingly sympathetic foundation of these poems in the reality of family and immediate perception is wholly

always hold the ultimate imaginative fascination

terrariums

when the situation comes to a head and the conflict with Raffiq’s gang escalates

Norah Lange’s Notes from Childhood is a glimpse into the author’s sometimes magical

authentic and engaging

finding contentment in the placid

From politics to pop

“One of the funniest and most brilliant poets of his generation” – Johann Hari

and the everyday encounters that bind them

Shahid NWA and Fady Joudah

as you might expect

flip burgers and snog kelpies