Way More Than Luck Georges Rodenbach

Way More Than Luck Georges RodenbachFrom the thumping heartbeat of the distance runner to the roar of football terraces across the decades, Ben Wilkinsons debut confronts the struggles and passions that come to shape a life. Beginning with an interrogation of experiences of clinical depression and the redemptive power of art and running, the collection centres on a series of vivid character portraits, giving life to some of football's legends. By turns frank, comic, sinister and

Sometimes sport takes over Irish life: we meet up at the match everyone is going to

Peter Ripken

insistence on independence and engagement with Trinidadian life

a new translation of Acallam na Senórach

the art of poetic line

these poems consider questions of selfhood and the ways in which we can be peripheral in our own lives

engagement

Akram al-Katreb – A poem My Father

He wants to go straight

and served in Tripoli

the young Egyptian poets Ahmad Yamani and Mohamed Metwalli

the pride she takes in her Arabian heritage and her loyalty to Islam