The Green Monk Hisham MatarThe Green Monk was written between London, Madrid, and Krakow, and engages thrillingly with various surrealist visions of artists and poets, including Leonora Carrington, Salvador Dali, Federico Garca Lorca, James Tate, and Chika Sagawa. It concerns, variously, queer erotics, animism & magic, food, death & sublime nature, fairy tales & alchemy, & the wonders of everyday life in Madrid. It is simultaneously contemporary and ancient, built on visual
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The long-awaited re-release of Jessie Lendennie's prose poem Daughter
The other three poets
lovers and strangers who populate these poems
frozen limbs thaw from cryogenic sleep
a young man who is a reluctant member of the Hitler Youth
Eamonn Wall emigrated to the US in 1982
"Arc have produced a handsome Russian-English edition of this personal epic of the early years of the Revolution
April 2014)
ordinary tales they tell each other
class ceilings and the battle for the soul of the Left
Gwyneth Lewis