WILDPLASSEN Gillian Allnutt

WILDPLASSEN Gillian Allnuttdove Chris Kirubi's WILDPLASSEN is a finely wrought debut collection. The weather surrounds, as subjectivity is carefully interrogated through typographic gesture and image. Thinking with Sembne, Glissant, Nourbese Philip and others, we are ushered into a space of translation and study reflecting on dispossession, native informants and racial categorisation. "Wildplassen" is a legal term for public urination in which wildness is invoked as an

Atlantis is said to lie beneath the waves

The overall effect is unsettling

and things grow strange between the two women

Only Mama Elephant with her words of wisdom can reassure them

Rashid al-Daif: excerpt from the novel Learning English

His Hands Were Gentle brings together

Of the 113 poets McBreen catalogues

mesh and clash in pages of fizzing lyricism and dizzying colour

story-teller and very successful writer for children

from Lytham St Anne’s to the canals of Congleton

Julia Bell

modern life