The Darwin VampiresThe Darwin Vampires, Patrick Chapmans fifth collection, draws on life as much as on imagination to explore themes of memory, death, fractured love, and the often harrowing strangeness of the world around us. From the Pushcart Prize nominated title poem, with its dreamlike take on the evolution of the undead, through heartbreaking elegies for lost childhood innocence, to the final, affecting sequence on mortality, The Darwin Vampires is an addictive

was a finalist in the People’s Book Prize in 2010

translated by Cindy Eisner

it could be the start of a love story

Always among the innovators

No one’s springing to attention

beneath his bright bedspread

Four Personal Addresses

Grenada and England

James Liddy was a senior literary figure whose influence extended way beyond Ireland

Anne Cluysenaar

Wind eases among palms

which is about Auschwitz