Cherry Blossom at Nightbreak Allison McVety

Cherry Blossom at Nightbreak Allison McVetyCherry Blossom at Nightbreak by Rishi Dastidar blooms with poems determined to do the generous work of love and hope using the power of language to make change, express desire, and imagine the world as we'd like it to be. Dastidar's poems, with their deft skill in moving from the surreal to the profound, are a perfect burst of joy in challenging times, effervescent and seriously playful, romancing cityscapes and bursting with wit.

a paean to the English landscape

The collection encompasses poems written in the Shetland dialect

admired their magnificent beauty and woven them into our spiritual lives

daily observations and lifelong preoccupations – pitted prunes

England and Ireland

and there are the inventive poems of the dramatist drawn to create the stories of a rich variety of characters

recycle and are an important food source for many animals – they're tiny but mighty superheroes of the animal kingdom

and Dreams of Water by Nada Awar Jarrar

A beetle disguised as a water-drop

But their holiday is cut short when forces unknown destroy the robot convoy they were meant to be guarding

Levin's poetic voice – mordant

writing a play about computer dating