The TellingThe Telling by Julia Webb is a distinctive and acutely observed collection of poems that unravel the intricacies at the heart of human relationships an insistent, quietly fierce tour de force from this Forward Prize commended poet. Moving and dark, we uncover the things that go unspoken between people despite their closeness. In turning her forensic focus on what makes us human, and in particular what it is that glues us together or causes us to come

Henry-Jacques

In the twists and turns of the friendship

rubbish tips  and there’s even one poem set underwater

Tatyana Voltskaya

also re-published by Northway Books

Exploring the world of the underdog – angry

Emily Nasrallah’s Flight Against Time (1997)

The title poem of The Darwin Vampires was nominated for a Pushcart Prize

currently Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Ain Shams University

a miner tattooed by a working life spent underground

Her work will also feature in The Best of Irish Poetry 2010 and a forthcoming Dedalus anthology of immigrant poetry written in Ireland

Brendan Foster