The Impossibility of Nothingness David Perman

The Impossibility of Nothingness David PermanIn an extraordinary late flowering, these new poems written in his nineties are still characteristically and unmistakeably the crafted work of Ian McDonald, and they are also remarkably other. McDonalds hallmark qualities are all still here: a capacity for genuine compassion; an exploration of the complex nature of love; a profound engagement with the natural world; and character vignettes, powerfully drawn, empathetic but never sentimental, that are

decline and loneliness

Ingeborg Bachmann

future conversations with lovers-to-be

felling trees

The third section

from Pembrokeshire’s new potatoes to the oil refineries of Angle

The essays in this collection explore Lawrence’s relationship to Haggs Farm and the family who lived there

" - Mary Jean Chan

Refining and

This volume of MPT gives a voice to the unheard and creates living connections across frontiers

angry and on the run from drug dealers

wife to the British ambassador to Iraq under Saddam Hussein