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is a profound and timely consideration of the nature of crisis: at its heart is the figure of St Ethernan

the poems express the full range of Stratanovsky’s verse

Night Shift is a collection to warm the heart – a book rich in humanity

Affordable Angst: Selected Poems by Mercedes Cebrian, trans. By Terence Dooley Elhum Shakerifar they are unified by theMercedes Cebrian is interested in how the ideas and ideals by which we live our lives intersect with the minutiae of those lives: food, decor, travel, taxes, relationships, celebrity watching, the quiddity of the everyday. I remember a board game from my child hood: trees, houses, cars, tiny people with fixed smiles, lives mapped out, with consumer choices made for you and decisions taken for you on the little question cards she writes in the poem