Berninis Cat"Fans of Gerda Mayer will be delighted with her new collection. Short, spare, deceptively simpleher range is wide. The poems have a vivid imagistic claritydeliciously wickedbittersweet sadness" Katie Campbell CITY LIMITS "One of the most tactful namers of the Holocaust but her poems of everyday disenchantment are deepened by a powerful bitterness. She is funny but never a stand up comedian. Like Stevie Smith she writes children's rhymes for grown

Mohammad al-Hussaini

originally reviewed in Banipal issues

Michael Augustin

When all is Quiet

To whom it happens

Tony Hanania: Excerpt from forthcoming novel Eros Island

My Life in Squares is an introduction to the work of a major European poet and one of the most original writers to emerge in recent years from the 'new Europe'

translated by Paul Harris

They include the well-known poets Amjad Nasser and Khaled Mattawa

KG Karyotakis

Also in 2001 he won the RTE

was published