Hymnal by Julia Bell Ariadne Radi Cor both enforced and self-imposed

both enforced and self-imposed

grief and tenderness in these poems are universal and belong to every kind of human affection - indeed Forcano has been described by the Catalan journalist and academic Pere Ballart as 'our foremost love poet'

crushed velvet

Many of the poets in the anthology have arrived via the pages of PN Review

Hymnal by Julia Bell Ariadne Radi Cor both enforced and self-imposedLate in the 1960s, before Bell was born, her father and mother visited Aberaeron, a small fishing town on the west coast of Wales. Here, her father heard a voice which he knew to be God directing him to minister to the Welsh. Six months after she was born in the early 1970s, they moved to Aberaeron where he took up his first curateship. Over the next eighteen years they would move to various parishes within a forty mile radius: first to Llangeler a