Playing House David Wheatley

Playing House David WheatleyPlaying House is the debut collection of poetry from Katherine Stansfield. A concise wit, a distinct voice and a unsettling view of the domestic, characterize these poems whos subjects are the ordinary as viewed through the authors satirical yet sympathetic eye. John Lennons tooth, an imaginary Canada, bees in Rhode Island, jetlag and office politics are all peculiar grist to this authors mill. She presents both historical subjects, such as Captain

set in an ornate arch from the Alhambra

Hassouna Mosbahi and Hassan Najmi

With a scholarship to Oxford

The bed of poverty

Issa J Boullata: Short story Without a Court Trial

Llandaff is the hub of the Church in Wales

Itsik Manger Four Poems

From early in his career Jackie’s powerful

a fisherman who is lost at sea

’ he said

Dun Laoghaire International Poetry Festival

this is the finest work to date from a writer hailed as one of the very best modern Irish poets