Earwig Country Peter Cole

Earwig Country Peter Cole"Beautiful things have inner horrors I learned to be wary of." This collection balances darkness with light: the beauty of the flower, the earwig within. Themes of mental health and memory are played out against the superstition that earwigs can burrow in through the ear and eat the brain. The German word ohrworm means earworm: something replaying in the mind. Another theme is the mortality of the human body. Nature struggles, yet its beauty still

Daniel Salgado and Estevo Creus – this anthology aims to give a flavour of some of today’s most significant poetry written in Galician

The two poets in the issue each present three poems

He has directed more than one hundred productions

Cold Rain was one of only five novels shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Best Thriller 2011

Evocative photographs by Robert Law and poetry by Rhys Iorwerth set the tone

On his travels Cope finds a multiplicity of wells with a variety of functions

at the heart of each of Saphra’s poems is a delicate filament kicking out a heavy-duty wattage

henceforth Yunior

Transitions will be jointly edited by David and Helen Constantine and the poet and translator Sasha Dugdale

Otherworldly

INTERVIEW with Abdelrahman Munif

Markham worked in the theatre