Vampire in LoveGathered for the first time in English and spanning his entire career, Vampire in Love offers a selection of the Spanish master Enrique Vila Matass finest short stories. An effeminate, hunchbacked barber on the verge of death falls in love with a choir boy. A fledgling writer on barbiturates visits Marguerite Durass Paris apartment and watches his dinner companion slip into the abyss. An unsuspecting man receives a mysterious phone call from a lonely

his story – supreme success though it is – is also a grand example of fate at her most ungenerous

his influence was extended through controversial reforming pamphlets on the subject

Mohamed al-Harthy

meet in his latest work to form a poetry as poignant as it is celebratory

Children play in the twisted roots of a landscape both dangerous and triumphant

the poetics of saying what you mean and the politics of meaning what you say

'Second in the ‘Nicky Burkett’ series

controversial yet ultimately triumphant campaign

Thomas Kinsella: Designing for the Exact Needs

its mad Fridays

these are poems that confront and contradict

and on the major African poets Niyi Osundare