Cycles and Lost MonkeysIn her latest collection of poems Jo Slade continues her investigation of displacement and difference and illustrates how these experiences can be transformed through poetry, a transformation that is not so much redemptive, as prophetic. These are inquisitive, sonorous, intense poems that draw us into a world where actuality and dream collide, where loneliness, grief and resilience are innate. Informed by history and personal memory, Jo Slade propels

’ Francis Combes believes that poets should now say

I cannot live beside you any longer

Gamal el-Ghitani

including 'freak shows' and circuses

It's comprehensiveness alone would make it an invaluable introduction to an enormously creative community of poets

Upside Down Heart (2012) and Reclaimed Land (2013)

It makes for a global solidarity against all the ideologies and globalisations that reduce humanity

Shaker Noori

he brings fresh air into Alun’s cushy number and makes him face the hardest decision of his life

or his given language’s

the book includes translated poems and prayers from the Roma themselves

which eventually led him to a spell in Baghdad