Permafrost Unknown

Permafrost UnknownPermafrosts no bullshit lesbian narrator is an uninhibited lover and a wickedly funny observer of modern life. Desperate to get out of Barcelona, she goes to Brussels, because a city whose symbol is a little boy pissing was a city I knew I would like; as an au pair in Scotland, she develops a hatred of the colour green. And everywhere she goes, she tries to break out of the roles set for her by family and society, chasing escape wherever it can be

'The author stood for the European Parliament on the slogan 'It's a big trough and I want to get my nose in it

moving and powerful poem by one of the best-known of contemporary Italian poets who is also editor of Leone Editions

a graceful mining of the nuances of Jamaican patwa and American English

no matter how hard it is growing up

His witty and compassionate work takes on a new urgency

a child called Deeby from the sewers

insights that are often underlaid by a sense of life's constant ability to extend beyond the present in the direction of its beginning and its end

People are depicted as souls – as in these lines about a woman shoring herself up to enter her own house: ‘Not polite to barge in

portraying growing up in the twilight of communism

and from Yemen

they draw the reader in

this book sings