Pictures of the Afterlife"Jude Nutter's early work is measured and precise, elegiac in its sorrow and love for the natural world. It was no surprise when I found she had homesteaded on Wrangell Island in Alaska for ten years, working the land, watching birds, listening to snow, and writing poems. That quality of solitude, patience and a survivalist's strict attention to detail comes through in her work. Nutter's first collection, Pictures of the Afterlife, explores not only

His essays

But twenty-five years in the USA without contact with his family has allowed mutual resentments to mature and trapped Winston in the traumas of his childhood

This is a novel about exile

where he is Flannery O'Connor Professor of Letters

David Greenslade

He has lived nearly half his life outside Iraq

In these sometimes strange

This extensive anthology features the work of more than 40 poets resident in the North-East

Jack comes every day now

He helped edit Sunk Island Review and was founder editor of Seam magazine

• Oliver Reynolds

the novel has much to say about the power of forgiveness and the possibility of transcending hurt