End of American Magic"The poems of Christopher Locke astound; every coal mine they lead you down eventually opens to a great and fragile light, both redemptive and heartbreaking. Yet his is a voice ultimately concerned with the remarkable possibilities found in ordinary human mercy." James Frey "With Christopher Locke's poems, acute powers of observation and a flair for original metaphors combine to render a vivid and credible world. Clarity, freshness and honest self

Robert Creeley

IRON and of course Bloodaxe

Buntin writes with scrupulous attention to the agency of love in a wounded and venomous world

Melissa Lee-Houghton was born in Wythenshawe

Cover artist: Nabil Abu Hamad

extracts translated by Robert Chandler

to the damaged peers and tense situations of adult life

and one of the most famous pieces of poetry ever written about a cat

A five-times winner of national poetry awards in Bulgaria

The Deer Wedding is a novel set in Croatia

The stench of dead or dying people bereft Him of all words

He was the first British graduate of the Berklee School of Music