The Longest FarewellWhen Nulas husband James, an Irish documentary filmmaker, becomes forgetful they put it down to the stress of his work. But his behavior becomes more erratic and inexplicable, and he is eventually diagnosed as suffering from Picks Disease, an early onset and aggressive form of dementia. Suddenly their lives change from comfortable middle class creatives through inexplicable behaviour, the shock of diagnosis, coping with the ongoing illness, not coping

• Gilgamesh

The latest in Arc’s Translation Series brings poems from Sigurður Pálsson’s ten collections written between 1980 and 2008 to a UK audience

I hear her sweet song

Sixties (including that of Black feminism)

views out onto the world close and open

Alan Plater was a full-time writer from 1961 until his death in 2010

And did his triangular relationship with Gweno and Freda contribute to the ending of his life

she manages to leap over the wall between the bodily surface and the human interior in a very distinctive way

to capture what Virginia Woolf called “moments of being”

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

Richard Skinner

all our errors and erasures