Open Plan Hugh Purcell

Open Plan Hugh PurcellAlice in Wonderland meets David Brent: exploring the humdrum of 9 5 office work. These days most of us earn our daily bread sweating over spreadsheets, agendas and unanswered e mails. There are 10 million office workers in the UK, sharing over 200 million square metres of office space. And yet office work has rarely been the subject of poetry. Graham Fulton writes with wit and compassion of the world of e mails, post its, tea breaks and sickies, of

and edited the ground-breaking anthology Irish Poetry After Yeats (Little

Samir Naqqash (1938–2004)

Formerly Literature Director at the Arts Council of Wales

but will their teen love affair survive

and the rhythms of better living drumming gently in his mind

with photographs from his life with writers

His writing appears in the anthologies The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South (2007) and Gathering Ground (2006)

combines love poems with political satire

Abdu Khal: Establishing an Aesthetic

Theo Dorgan

hoof-churned mud

His sensitive awareness of the natural world