The Drowning of the SaintsThe Drowning of the Saints is a stunning debut and introduces a young writer with a distinctive new voice, full of verve and promise. The collection is filled with sensual, lyrical and beautifully crafted poems, poems which are often infused with a dream like magic and arouse a sense of longing, searching, and questioning. Whether it is a rumination on a gate to a farm, a painting by Breughel, the end of a love affair or the armada's wreckage off the

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Paula Haydar

The aim was to produce an issue which would represent a substantial selection of the many languages in which the BBC broadcasts from Bush House

in corners of the room

involving CIA-trained death-squads

Etel Adnan and 11 others

"John Jordan was conscious of the general sense of malaise that pervaded post-war Europe

ìAnd so I read these stories certain that I would find connections between them and there are plenty

The Last Migration

Austin Clarke

of sports crowds