Curse of the Birds Naomi Jaffa

Curse of the Birds Naomi Jaffa"One hardly expects so much pleasure in a small collection." Poetry Ireland Review Curse of The Birds evokes a world of myth and dark energies. The flight of the soul in each of the four sections is unsettling. Ghosts abound in a bleak fragmented landscape. Curse of The Birds is a quarrel from within, wrestling with loneliness and uncertainty. It is elegiac, mischievously humorous and satirical. Noel Monahan speaks with compassion about and for the

He was awarded an Arts Council Bursary in 2002 and won the Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize in 2004

with the publication of Without an Alphabet

Today in the Café Trieste brings together new and old work by Richard Tillinghast

Khaled Khalifa

In addition to the title poems

Laila al-Ouhaydib

occasionally humorous

translated by Quentin Crisp

and to pioneer Iraqi author Fuad al-Takarli

keened a note that held me closer

Of your lips and your mouth

and Drumcliffe