Significance Kathy Towers

Significance Kathy TowersWinner of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize 2015. Lucy Swann is trying on a new life. She leaves the UK without telling anyone that she is going away. Perhaps shell only go for a week, or a month, she doesnt know yet. Shes cut and dyed her hair, bought new clothes. She has only gone as far as a small town in Northern France when her journey is abruptly brought to an end by her violent death. A skilled writer, Jo Mazelis traces the events of Lucys

political and personal

An interesting feature of this anthology is that each Galician poet has selected one poem in five to be rendered purely in the Irish language

their individual repertoires and how they see their place in the continuing tradition

by Abdo Wazen

A thorough section devoted to author biographical details and credits will be of use to scholars and the curious who desire to read more work by the poets included

Her poetry has also been published in The Rialto

and also behind the lines

Salman Masalha

of belonging nowhere

These poems and experimental texts oscillate between sense and nonsense

She is a Fellow of the Hawthenden International Writers Centre

Yvonne Weekes currently lives in Barbados