Meadowlands DawnImprisoned by the apartheid regime in South Africa, Verity Saunders endures the daily degradation of her incarceration whilst coming to terms with the disappearance of her activist lover, Tariq Randeree. Thirty years later, Verity sets out to uncover the truth about her past and to confront those who brutalised and betrayed her. As secrets are exposed she learns that in order to truly heal she must embrace the path of forgiveness. Meadowlands Dawn is

Radwa Ashour was awarded the Constantine Cavafy International Prize for Literature

as the book goes on and the protagonist starts to lose grip of people around him

poet and essayist Tahar Ben Jelloun

as well as Ellington

Ann Quinn provides the eloquent cover and artwork for Poetry Ireland Review 128

his poems never fail to delight

Jamie is at the centre of high-end decision making

When The Folly appeared in South Africa in 1993

relates ‘place’ (or estrangement) to a kind of existential discomfort

Turkey and Palestine

vast range of Holocaust poetry in one small anthology

James Nash is a writer and long-term resident of Leeds