Night-time Stories Format:Paperback

Night-time Stories Format:PaperbackA child waits for the tooth fairy; a mother spends a night watching a recording of the previous night; two women face the ghosts that haunted their grandmothers. The nights in these ten stories are thick and substantial, ambiguous and alluring. Eerie, magical, hushed and surprisingly alive, this anthology shows the night as a place where connections are made and daylit lives can be changed.

The Breaking of the Day is a book built around a 3-piece title sequence as Michael Heffernan

With an appendix of valuable documents setting out a variety of Guyanese approaches to the issue of power-sharing

are poems from languages that are less often associated with the

as the author herself puts it “by the consummate experts on the darker side of experience

A Choreographer’s Cartography and Lovers

No one’s springing to attention

poetry makes something happen

grieving emptiness and the rebuilding of a heart and sense of self

A great deal has changed in the world in the arc of time covered by these poems

Alex Dally MacFarlane

except one small strong house

his life was dominated by the loss of Lizbietta and their child