The Drowning of the Saints Choman Hardi

The Drowning of the Saints Choman HardiThe Drowning of the Saints is a stunning debut and introduces a young writer with a distinctive new voice, full of verve and promise. The collection is filled with sensual, lyrical and beautifully crafted poems, poems which are often infused with a dream like magic and arouse a sense of longing, searching, and questioning. Whether it is a rumination on a gate to a farm, a painting by Breughel, the end of a love affair or the armada's wreckage off the

She lives in Leicester where she chairs Leicester Writers Club

" - Morning Star

This is her first book for Five Leaves

If it tried to obey

with the slow and mesmerizing bloom—or inflorescence—of the yard’s magnificent agave

Peter Finch will win yet more readers over with Useful

These vibrant poems resonate with a spirited voice that is consistently lively

She has twice been a prize-winner in the Poetry Now

Though stylistically and thematically diverse

has lived in Copenhagen (Denmark) for over twenty years

Mike Jenkins continues his life-long fascination with the history and fate of Wales

in this issue has to do with what we think of as the hallmark of our age: exile