Contentious SpacesThe Traveller families who live in Saint Ritas are on borrowed time. In just a week they will be evicted by the local council, threatening not only their homes but also their history and the stories that have shaped them. Charlene, a proud young beoir suffers a humiliating betrayal. Her mother, Kate, is left to navigate unbearable loss while holding the family together. Her cousin, Sheena, strives to find her place in a new environment that is quick

In political terms the poems chart the impact of imperialism and neo-colonialism that lay behind those traumas in the life of the nation

Orbita’s projects have been recognized with The Latvian Writer’s Union Annual Literature Award

Natalya Gorbanevskaya

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things get more serious as they have to find a new home

Its collage technique reflects the continual shifts of life in the city of light

both as poets

Lebanese author Ahmad Ali El-Zein

by some of the best-known names in contemporary Irish poetry (Eavan Boland

and prose to question what translation can and cannot make visible

through his experimentation and his continual "learning" from other literatures he is extending this heritage

Vladimir Mayakovsky was one of the towering literary figures of pre- and post-revolutionary Russia