Space Captain SmithIts the 25th Century and the British Space Empire faces the gathering menace of the evil ant soldiers of the Ghast hive, hell bent on galactic domination and the extermination of all humanoid life forms. Captain Isambard Smith is the square jawed, courageous and somewhat asinine new commander of the clapped out freighter John Pym, destined to take on the alien threat because nobody else is available. Together with his bold crew a skull collecting

Fflur Dafydd transforms the medieval Welsh Arthurian myth of ‘Culhwch and Olwen’ into a 21st-century quest for love and revenge

and you can sleep the deepest sleep

and now lives in Iowa City

his poems themselves become vehicles for change

along with a final essay

But on returning from Australia to his hometown he finds it has become notorious for the suicides of young people

A native of Montreal with Irish ancestry and dual Canadian/ American citizenship

Full of verve

where she works as a creative writing teacher

the poet Paul Deaton has produced a debut collection

a diamond dress-ring with finger bones still attached

It’s the red stones of a