Night Walk"John McKeowns dark, crystalline poems break in the mind like wafers of longing for a world weve nearly forgotten is still ours." Naomi Foyle Rather than emotion recollected in tranquility many of these short poems encapsulate the aggravations of love untempered by any fireside philosophy. Unrealisable lusts of the eye, unrequited attachment, and moments of realised and imaginary passion are concentrated into cameos and carbuncles glimmering tokens of

Eskander Habache

Manuel Rivas

readable book

He frequently writes on books and travels for the New York Times

to the work of established names likes Charles Way and Frank Vickery

His successes as a playwright include Execution described by the Evening Standard as "dynamite"

Paula Haydar

Poetry Europe Series No

Marilyn Hacker: Guy Goffette’s ‘Construction Site of the Elegy’

This is a Wales beset by: rain

But while the story here centres on Peter King's life in jazz it shows other important sides of him too: his ambitions and achievements in classical composing

The author confesses to having been influenced by Zbigniew Herbert and Flann O'Brien at the same time