A Whistling of BirdsElizabeth Bishops hawkweed, John Berrymans hummingbirds, Ted Hughess burnt fox the birds, beasts and flowers of Isobel Dixons new collection are at times kin to D. H. Lawrence, whose essay Whistling of Birds lends this book its name, though each poem here is its own vivid testament to the natural world, and our often troubled and troubling place in it. Lyrical, vigorous, inventive, A Whistling of Birds is at times in conversation with Lawrences iconic

and follow her dreams

Graham Fulton

there was an outpouring of grief across the Caribbean that a poet

and also the theme of language itself and the boundaries it can break

one that should please her as much as it should touch her readers

Into the spider’s web…

including South Sudan

Hope and Love is a well-plotted

His translations of Soviet-era surrealist Daniil Kharms

These and other intriguing questions are posed in Gerard Loughran’s short stories

observations on the threatening edge of violence below the surface energies of Black British territories in London

Her twin sister is a famous movie star