Exquisite PrisonsEdward ODwyers poems in Exquisite Prisons pack the quotidian with a creeping terror; motorists nervously migrate to investigate the car stalled at the lights, a father is filmed throwing his child higher and higher, a husband wonders if his wife also fantasises about killing him. These poems are savagely ironic, authoritative and delivered in an unsettling coaxing voice that occupies that same dazzling imaginative territory as Shirley Jackson in The

connecting personal feelings of loss with larger narratives of the Fall – mythical

Midcentury tells an engrossing story - one of defeat and recovery

mesmerising space where a reader

full of characters who will suffer for their modern sins

Presented in five titled sections they revisit the landscapes of his years in Japan

sexual pleasure became the key to her life

Schrödinger’s Cat and the Cat in the Hat

In this book he tells candidly of the challenges and rewards of the jazz life as well as the destructive aspects he has seen – especially racial discrimination and drugs

Sebria/ Montenegro): “Zhenya” is a fragment from her 2016 novel Daughter of the Childless Man (Š

Exploring place and displacement

Margaret Obank Adama by Turki al-Hamad

and an insight into what God wears to work