The Zoo Father John GreeningShortlisted for the 2001 T. S. Eliot Prize, this unique collection centres on a daughter's fraught relationship with her dying father, a man whose legacy to her was violence and abandonment. Rich in the imagery of the Amazonian jungle (fire ants, shaman masks, hummingbirds, shrunken heads, jaguars) these poems at once ward off and redeem the father through myriad transformations. In contrast, 'The Vineyard' series is inspired by the author's mother
where he was a Newman Scholar
"This must-have for thorough poetry collections offers samples of more than a hundred Irish women poets who have published at least one volume of poetry
and he knows how to rhyme as well
coupled with the general movement for ‘disability’ rights
• Homosexuality and Judaism
And dreamt he'd travelled home to Naples - at The market
Poetry Society
”For a Cockney brought up in an orphanage because his Italian-rooted father died early
The issue kicks off with a new story by novelist and short story writer Jamal Mahjoub writing in English
often preoccupied by suffering and the borders of existence and non-existence
its echoes of lovers' quarrels
translated by Hubert Moore and Nasrin Parvaz
