Hopelessness Stewart Carswell

Hopelessness Stewart Carswell"The brilliant Verity Spott has a new book out, called Hopelessness and published by the 87 Press. The work defies categorisation: Verity is a poet, and this book is certainly poetry, but large parts are in prose form and towards the end it even takes on the structure of an absurdist play. There seems to be a loose narrative, and even recurring character voices, so Im tempted to call it a short experimental novel, in the vein of Kenneth Patchens The

All he needs is someone to love him again

Only Mama Elephant with her words of wisdom can reassure them

Kitch represents the first biographical study of Aldwyn Roberts

And when my Ob-water sense rises when my sea-golden Ob-golden holy sense rises and I wave the holy staff with its seven notches clutched in my goodside hand the hunched holy earth will go all a-tremble

and poems for children to produce the full range of this marvellous writer and his enduring work

Paschalis Nikolaou on Philip Ramp’s Karouzos

This selection includes translation from Acallam na Senórach

He sets out to journey

Running through enemy territory

You could cook two

especially at Christmas

Aifric Mac Aodha