Hopelessness"The brilliant Verity Spott has a new book out, called Hopelessness and published by the 87 Press. The work defies categorisation: Verity is a poet, and this book is certainly poetry, but large parts are in prose form and towards the end it even takes on the structure of an absurdist play. There seems to be a loose narrative, and even recurring character voices, so Im tempted to call it a short experimental novel, in the vein of Kenneth Patchens The

Ben Howard

dark woods

and girls everywhere

The poet’s fascination with words and language lend both a lyricism and restraint while her rhythms echo those of time

chapters from Hamdy el-Gazzar’s novel Sehrun Aswad [Black Magic]

and articles on the themes of self-sufficiency

He is still revered as Catalonia’s premier essayist

range warmly and ruefully across the scales of place and displacement – from the American heartland to the lost 'family country' of Ireland to Rapallo and Mumbai – and in so doing manage to turn the genre of bildungsroman into a transnational narrative of longing and witness

Anna Crowe

his circle of fellow artists and the books he published to give a full and rounded account of a man whose work is currently enjoying a well-deserved renaissance

dominatrix

cultural critic and retired medical physician and clinical neuroscientist with numerous acclaimed books under his belt