The Hard Word BoxIn 2013 the poet Sarah Hesketh spent 20 weeks visiting a residential care home for people with dementia. The result is The Hard Word Box, a book of poems and verbatim interviews that takes the reader on a surprising and enriching journey through memory and imagination. The agility of Hesketh's poetic voice channels moments of tenderness, suffering and humour, revealing dementia as a negotiation with language and silence. The Hard Word Box is an

Concluding with the 3000-word poem ‘Red Hawthorn-Hedged’

arranged anonymously (fully indexed at the back)

Scottish and French descent

He has published work in a wide variety of journals and anthologies and has won a Welsh Arts Council Prize for Literature

and Adel Karasholi who writes in German – all of them highly accomplished and published poets

and fast-moving playscript by Lebanese poet

washed by the Mediterranean

misunderstandings and oppressions of the spirit

a short story translated by Katy Derbyshire

(A folyó)

The cover artist is Kurdish Iraqi painter Sadradeen

Martii Hynynen