Turas Press

Terual, north-east SIn the Dark novel by Anamaria Crowe Serranopain, winter, 1937. The civil war is raging, pitting neighbour against neighbour, tearing families apart. Franco’s Nationalist rebels have surrounded the devastated, Republican-held city.

Wry, witty and surreal, the poems in Darren Donohue’s first collection demonstrate a confidence rare in début poets.

Hattaway’s signature pared-back style reveals the starkness at the heart of life experiences – family connections, expectations, disappointments, grief.

These poems, rich in variety and location, capture an accumulation of small moments and gestures that reflect back to us the inevitable progression of time