Velvel's Violin Rosie Jackson

Velvel's Violin Rosie JacksonVelvels Violin, a deeply moving and political fifth collection by TS Eliot Prize shortlisted poet Jacqueline Saphra places us on the shifting ground between past and present. Through its search for missing histories of the Jewish diaspora, the book is a call for empathy and a warning to a world where the legacy of the Holocaust echoes current narratives of prejudice, war, displacement, and migration. Saphras precisely tuned writing ranges through

there’s Sophia who comes to work in Georgia

s fingers and a call for personal liberation and authenticity

There is a double meaning in the title to this debut collection from Jane Aldous

has encouraged her to write prose poems filled with explosiveness and extroversion

his career trajectory is far from the typical jazz story of the tragic artist in which early brilliance leads to later decline

Wole Soyinka

Replete with tender and poignant moments

The book traces the development of his career from boyhood until his return to England in 1783

Ronny Someck

Sunday at the Skin Launderette (Seren

'Murnane's sentences are little dialectics of boredom and beauty

Edward Said (1935-2003)