Island mountain glacier Paul Stephenson

Island mountain glacier Paul StephensonWINNER OF AN ENGLISH PEN TRANSLATES AWARD Island mountain glacier by acclaimed poet Anne Vegter is tumultuous, humorous, erotic, enigmatic and vulgar in equal measure. Written in an elastic, playful style that levels the playing field of what kinds of images carry poetic weight, the poems inhabit an incongruous space between everyday distractions and intimate, at times uncomfortable or disturbing questions. Vegter became the first female Poet Laureate

and in her new home makes an unexpected friend and finds a secret realm

Just one poem by each poet appears

Cremin has recently been on a reading tour of Ireland and continues to perform and record her poetry regularly

Kate Potts

“an entire continent of poems whispering and singing inside Arabic and calling on us to reacquaint ourselves with its topography

and madness

Even the recovery of the Armour of David

of children and families brought together or torn apart

with a note on Hafan Books

Hundreds of poets took up the challenge and their poems swept the board of poetry prizes

Cumbria and Hong Kong

Charlie Chaplin weaving between the stalled cars on the M25