Throat Full of Feathers Format:Paperback

Throat Full of Feathers Format:PaperbackIn Lorna Shaughnessys Throat Full of Feathers time refuses to move in straight lines. It dissolves, gathers, and returns in fragmentsmoments of real beauty refracted through memory. These poems are shards of light and shadow, of voices and their echoes that blur and merge, speaking of metamorphosis and the fragile architecture of remembrance. There is a rare brilliance in her fearless play with formmonologues, sonnets and free versevessels for many

darkly comic coming-of-age novel about ambition

beasts and flowers of Isobel Dixon’s new collection are at times kin to D

could put one of the most dangerous criminals in the country behind bars

The whole self

and the price we pay for belonging

This edition of this beloved novel features an original foreword by favourite children's authorJacqueline Wilsonand an afterword by ProfessorThomas Ruys Smith(University of East Anglia) which reintroduces readers to this much-loved book

that language of the Arabs considered corrupted

set both in Trinidad and London

and pleasure

old wives’ tales and young people’s ambitions – the melancholy beauty and pain of an ordinary life

A poem might stammer like a belt buckle or stream out in prose

Leslie Thompson’s life was not without its tragedies