Gorée: Point of Departure Yassin Adnan

Gorée: Point of Departure Yassin AdnanA chance encounter at Kennedy Airport with her ex husband, Saliou Wade, takes Magdalene and their now adult daughter, Khadi, on a visit to him and his new family in Senegal. Magdalene is understandably nervous about the return, remembering the pain of the mutual cultural incomprehension she is a St Lucian that ended the marriage almost twenty years before; but Khadi refuses to go without her. In Senegal, whilst the now cosmopolitan Saliou appears to

and has already started working on her next collection of poems in English

Meg Peacocke

fishermen and boat-builders

'journeying' is a state of mind

Juliet Jacques

“I cannot recommend this book too highly

and he continues to visit Ireland often

in order to shed light on the suffering and dying of a young man from AIDS

from mainstream publishers to the smaller presses – sympathetic

to freeze or burn

The title poem of The Darwin Vampires was nominated for a Pushcart Prize

" His work stands out among contemporary poetry for its focus on history