MotherlungAbout Motherlung by Lisa Marie Brodsky: The poems in Motherlung are fiercely present though they, in large part, concern absence and loss. Brodsky artfully use the small gesture, the evanescent detail, the unspoken, to illuminate the mother daughter bond, the boundaries of self and the transformative power of grief until it is as if she has, lit every candle in the room. This is a remarkably engaging and powerful book. Beckian Fritz Goldberg Born and

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Fflur Dafydd

which was described by the Irish Literary Supplement as “an attempt at reconstructing an obscured heritage

appraises the great Yang Lian's new collection Lee Valley Poems (Bloodaxe Books)

Sarah Butler

Tatyana Retivova

these poems chart a search for meaning in a disintegrating world

One exception is his recent novel

Her first book of poems in German

James Nash is a writer and long-term resident of Leeds

He has translated into Irish the selected poems of