The Turpentine TreeThe Turpentine Tree employs strong, sensuous imagery to explore displacement, solitude and the search for connection. Drawing on memories from a life uprooted by time spent at sea, widowhood, and loss, she conjures vivid portraits of family, friends and loved ones. Often these recollections are bittersweet, recalling friends and lovers lost, including her later partner, Dannie Abse. From her experiences of loss and solitude come landscapes of silence:

For he purrs in thankfulness

turning instead to the vibrant realities of the Jamaican working class

has created a moving and deeply feminist work that gives vivid inwardness to both the heroism and tragedy of a life that involved fighting the Ku Klux Klan

Nash writes across the complications of working class women

One Small Saga is one of Bobbie Louise Hawkins’ most personal and haunting autobiographical novels

ever aware that “childhood is so intensely serious

Clara Janès

In her prize-winning work 'The Story Never Told'

including Rabia of Basra

and exalts a most horrible history into a fantastical rhapsody

A number of the poems in The Geez are written in a form called the Gimbal

He is a novelist and newspaper columnist