A Darker Way Tony Harrison

A Darker Way Tony HarrisonA Darker Way is a collection of poems and songs by Grahame Davies which traces a hard won but redemptive path between idealism and irony, failure and faith. These poems are alert to both the superficiality and the seriousness of the everyday, often showing that human feelings are complicated and surprising. Renowned not only as a poet, but also as a lyricist, Davies lyrics explore belief and unbelief, meaning and mystery, dealing with love and loss

is a salutary reminder of the wealth of writing talent in both the Caribbean and Ghana that flowered in this period but then

and the book as an object in flux

and in the face of the stereotypes attached to these people (such as stoicism or a propensity for laughter)

Galina Ermoshina

Celebrating both human and divine love

Though in one sense Gwyneth Barber Wood writes against the grain of much recent Jamaican poetry by writing almost exclusively in standard English (the one occasion when she uses nation language is all the more powerful by contrast) and using traditional forms of verse

Distant Train by Ibrahim Abdel Megid

As the rich

Edited by Rian Evans

Susannah Tarbush: Memory for Forgetfulness by Mahmoud Darwish

Markham worked in the theatre

And in elegising Lewis's promise we should not overlook his actual achievement…"