SederThe innovative debut collection from Adam Kammerling, Seder is an archived and deft account of a person reckoning with their heritage and family history. Hybrid, dexterous and informed, Kammerling retraces his Jewish heritage back to the concentration camps of Nazi Germany, as poems fluctuate through time and space, leaving us with a forbidding sense that what has changed over recent decades is not enough.

How are our thoughts set in motion during these journeys

Julian Stannard taught English and American Literature at the University of Genoa for many years

from lively

with selected poems from The Fertile Shore

and the intellectual honesty

translated by Peter Constantine

Charbel Dagher

nine poems

which was translated into Serbo-Croat

Also present are characters conjured from history – including the ‘four hundred Welsh Women wearing stovepipe hats’ who foiled the last invasion of Britain in 1797 – as well as contemporary encounters with lifeboat crews

narrated by ‘an ordinary man with ears of ordinary silk’

and ‘out there’ in bravely following his