Significant WowFollowing her Laureate Choice Pamphlet The Day of the Flying Ants, Emily Cotterills debut collection Significant Wow is delivered with dry wit, fizzing with humour and inventiveness. Her subjects range from celebrity culture (Blondie, David Bowie, Michael Sheen) to the class system (Money in your mouth like an accident) to reservations about parenthood in A Speculative Script for Motherhood. Here is a surreal mixture of feral hogs, terrariums, the

Another Way To Split Water

Indians and Chinese – against the colonial establishment

There is also a considerable amount of humour here

a Ulysses shaken up in the snow-dome of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

fundamentally

Basma El-Khatib

Slesinger’s ‘feeling for life’s unavoidable sorrow remains haunting

Rose Fyleman

War and With You and Without You

The two form a deep and abiding relationship

Daniel Weissbort introduces James Kirkup

The books reviewed include first titles from the two newest Irish publishers