The Europeans Hugh McFadden

The Europeans Hugh McFaddenDavid Clarke, winner of the Michael Marks Poetry Award 2013, returns with his second collection, The Europeans. Simultaneously close to home and looking outward beyond these shores, these wry and perceptive poems revel with form and encompass journeys, ideas of nationhood and national identity, and the optimism of a time when Europe and the UK enjoyed a quite different entente cordiale. They are a warning against nostalgia, a lucid and prescient

Haoua worships her elder brother

sunbathing and a thanksgiving dinner for the demise of Margaret Thatcher

Alice Fulton

Ounsi El Hage

along with fun facts on the animals and their amazing behaviour in the wild

the West Bank and beyond

a remarkable range of history

and then to those of young authors Bothayna al-Essa

a portrait of the Irish Literary Renaissance

Inkle and Yarico has the same magic and pertinence

not coping with the illness

in 1962 with her husband Tim Hartigan where they farmed and reared their six children