Offers a study of poetry as an alternative way of seeing the world and of obtaining insights into realities that enable the reader to see the vast otherness that usually eludes. The process of creativity is discussed. The influences of other disciplines on the heightening of consciousness are described as are methodologies of observation that have been employed in the last 100 years.
In 2021, Malgorzata Lebda ran the entire length of the longest river in Poland, the Vistula, from its source in the Beskid Mountains to its mouth at the Baltic Sea; her collection Mer de Glace, which won the Szymborska Prize, is the culmination of her remarkable journey.
Mary Lee’s poetry collection is a deeply spiritual and contemplative work that offers hope and grace amid life’s challenges. Reviewers highlight her unique ability to capture minute details of nature and expand them into profound spiritual insights.
Jennifer Lee Tsai's first full-length book of poetry explores family history, intergenerational trauma, love, loss and belonging through the perspective of a second-generation British Chinese identity, interweaving narratives of memory, migration and mysticism across Liverpool, China and Hong Kong, dual cultures and heritages.
Dublin, the 1960s. After Da's funeral, Charlie returns to his childhood home only to find his father's ghost stubbornly unwilling to leave. As the events of Charlie's youth and Da's troubled relationship with Mother are replayed, we discover the relationships that existed between father and son.
A chemist by training, the author became one of the witnesses to twentieth-century atrocity. In these haunting reflections inspired by the elements of the periodic table, he ranges from young love to political savagery; from the inert gas argon - and 'inert' relatives like the uncle who stayed in bed for twenty-two years - to life-giving carbon.