This Thing of Blood & Love César Aira and translated by Rosalie Knecht

This Thing of Blood & Love César Aira and translated by Rosalie KnechtThis Thing of Blood & Love, Lesley Saunders fifth collection with Two Rivers Press, is an intense examination of human culpability, the secrets we half keep from ourselves, the contradictory selves we inhabit, the histories that live on unreconciled in us, the planet whose imperfect stewards we are; and above all the unfathomable mystery of being (in) a body, incarnated, made flesh a thing of blood and love that betrays us with its appalling

Paul Batchelor: An essay on Barry MacSweeney’s Apollinaire

This really is a magical first book of poetry

and a must-buy for existing fans curious as to which poems 'made the cut'

but there are also pieces on less well-known poets such as Frank Collymore

some of them pushing words to their boundaries

David Tait

from his novel Mudun wa Wujooh [Cities and Faces]

The Sea Needs No Ornament/ El mar no necesita ornamento is the first bilingual anthology of contemporary poetry by women writers of the English- and Spanish-speaking Caribbean and its diasporas to be curated in more than two decades

but that also means there are no easy ways to fend off the visions of sex and violence that torment and titillate the girl

repetition

is full of strong poems and strong opinions

with his wife Patricia Latour