RopeKhairani Barokkas first full poetry collection, Rope, is a spellbinding and impressive debut, kaleidoscopic in detail and richly compelling. With a meticulous artists instinct, these finely tuned poems ask urgent questions about our impact upon the environment, and examine carefully the fragile ties that bind our lives and our fate to our planet, our ecosystems and to our fellow humans. Sensual and ecologically attentive, Rope draws on issues of

''Croatia’s foremost literary stylist

Two years and several exhibitions later

He has translated several poets into French

their various losses and their movements through time

Roisin Tierney

the book contains vivid insights into the poverty

the medieval anthology of Irish stories and poems

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and the ability to make a range of characters live and breathe

in an urgently lyrical book of poems that take many forms and modes of address: pantoum

"Reading his dazzling little vignettes about a whoring

Charlie Louth