The Shipwrecked House Amir Tag Elsir

The Shipwrecked House Amir Tag ElsirReader's nomination for Guardian First Book Award 2013 Anchors, shipwrecks, whales and islands abound in this first collection by young Anglo Breton poet Claire Trvien. Trviens is a surreal vision, steeped in myth and music, in which everything is alive and like the sea itself constantly shifting form. Fishermen become owls; a woman turns into a snake, while another gives birth to a tree; a glow worm might become a wasp or a toy on standby. Struck

Gill McEvoy

Born and raised in Portland

be redirected and forge new connections across an indeterminate matrix

the henna painter

by his jogging each arm

Oswald’s Book of Hours is a pocket history of northern subversion and exile

flung back an answer : 'Where is her bag

The Anarchist Past and Other Essays is edited by David Goodway whose own writing on anarchism includes (with Colin Ward) Talking Anarchy

The Hashish Waiter

Mourid Barghouti has spent many years in exile

she was awarded a gold medal for poetry at the XXX WCP in Taiwan

Osama Dinassouri – Excerpt from My Decrepit Dog