Cycles and Lost Monkeys Arlene Zide

Cycles and Lost Monkeys Arlene ZideIn her latest collection of poems Jo Slade continues her investigation of displacement and difference and illustrates how these experiences can be transformed through poetry, a transformation that is not so much redemptive, as prophetic. These are inquisitive, sonorous, intense poems that draw us into a world where actuality and dream collide, where loneliness, grief and resilience are innate. Informed by history and personal memory, Jo Slade propels

Adele is the star of her school’s football team

Italian and English

There is Abdulaziz Al Farsi

Kendel Hippolyte’s poetry moves easily

and he examines what it means to be a family

translated by Marilyn Hacker

Harvard Review

In Beyond the Walls 2020

In much the same way as he plays a solo he gives you everything

Bertolt Brecht Ten Poems of Exile

Ramsey Nasr in David Colmer's translation has a strong appeal to new generations of poetry readers

My Love faces all this with a raw intensity