Dark Pool: Poems 1994-2004 Sue Thomas

Dark Pool: Poems 1994-2004 Sue ThomasTaking its title from the root meaning of Dublin, Ben Howard's fifth collection of poems probes the provenance of naming. Ranging in locale from eastern Iowa to County Clare, these poems endeavour to call the things of this world by their 'rightful names'. Whether the object of contemplation be a vanished Dublin bookshop, a bronze cast of Abraham Lincoln's hands, the month of February, or a son's twenty first birthday, Howard's poems seek wholeness

like prayer and other holy forms

photographs

between routes and roots

Cesare Pavese

translated by Arthur McHugh

the Czech Republic

Thomas Aquinas

James Howarth

heroic struggle and the setbacks of born of self-interest and timorous compromise

In this revealing new book he writes movingly about the Cardiff of his childhood

and Elias Khoury

the latest translation of a novel by the late Nobel laureate for literature