Finch is a well known performance poet and his poems have the immediacy and the dramatic impact of pieces conceived for the stage
Tüzföld (Fire-earth) appeared in 1972 with an introduction by Sándor Weöres
growing against the sun-warm wall of my gut
It is the size of a tea-caddy
Eva Baltasar demonstrates her pre-eminence as a chronicler of queer voices navigating a hostile world – and in prose as brittle and beautiful as an ancient saga
As If To Sing Abdulilah Salhi Finch is a well knownThe power of song, to sustain the human spirit, resonates through this new collection from Paul Henry. In 'Cave Songs', a trapped caver, haunted by a 'ghost choir', crawls back through songs to the sea; Welsh soldiers in 'As if to Sing', pack their hearts into a song, on the eve of the Battle of Passchendaele, 'for safe keeping'; a woman's grief is 'unconscious of its song' and a child sings 'a song with no beginning or end' as father and son cross a