This brilliantly devised verse-novel opens with a love affair in crisis, unfolds through loss, risk and existential challenge, and ends with lovemaking in a domain at once sensual and imagined. Such radical ambiguity invites us to experience the lovers’ dilemmas as our own: is true intimacy only possible through distance?
A parallel language anthology, with a preface by Václav Havel, published by Arc Publications in association with the UK-based international organisation Literature Across Frontiers, presenting the new poetic talent from ten Eastern and Central European countries.
This selection brings together work from three books previously unpublished in English. These range from the intimate domestic portraits of ‘Evening Brings Everything Back’ to the later poems of ‘Summers and Springs’, in which Kaplinski the public man – Nobel nominee and Parliamentary Deputy – reflects on the role of the individual in the world.
This unique and comprehensive ‘map’ of the topic of creative writing in health and social care brings together contributions from health and social care professionals and provides the information needed to teach, counsel and write.
Fiona Sampson’s second full length book of poems is as varied and well crafted as any that will be published this year. Her intellect and humanity are underlain by a compelling poetic talent. Surviving a murder attempt generates the clarity, compression and pure celebratory drive of the book’s title sequence of fourteen syllabic sonnets.