Quiet in a Quiet HouseQuiet in a Quiet House is a collection of poems about people and places no longer here. The landscape, whether Ireland, Italy, France, Japan, is characterised by quiet interrupted at points by keening, by gales of laughter, by rants. Memory cuts both ways, past and future. People are depicted as souls as in these lines about a woman shoring herself up to enter her own house: Not polite to barge in, but: theres the step, theres the door. It has to be

stuffing your husband and the annual shindig for Greenland’s literary elite

” – The Observer on The Passion of Port Talbot

all of whom grew up to become major beacons of modernity

His other titles include the Penguin Classic

compassionate and humane

at Venue Cymru

the marrow extracted

living through the hope

Crossing the Border: voices of refugee and exiled women is still available

settled in Denmark and writing in Arabic

Guest Literature - Germany

Ahmed el-Madini