Unknown SoldierThe stimulus for these poems is a collection of photographs taken of the poet? s father, originally from colonial Sri Lanka, who was serving as a radio operator in an otherwise all white platoon in the 1939 45 desert war in North Africa. As for so many who came back from war to start or resume a family life, there was a great gulf of silence, an unwillingness to speak of those experiences. The collection begins and ends in an imaginative recreation of

hell bent on galactic domination and the extermination of all humanoid life forms

presenting subtly dislocated narratives that

Shirley MacLaine

Gerry Hull has read throughout Ireland and gained bursaries from Poetry Ireland and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre

was ‘the navel of the earth’

The Guest Literature spot is given over to the “incorruptible voice” of the great Spanish poet Angel Guinda

and performed on the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury in 2014

as are the poet’s physical surroundings

Other Countries: Contemporary Poets Rewiring History is an anthology of contemporary poetry that engages with events and figures of the past in new compelling ways

' well known poets (for example

Kristin Dimitrova was born in Sofia in 1963

Red is a powerful new anthology of work by Black British poets