Spoils Ines Abassi funny and sincere - to

funny and sincere - to perform as a document of daily human life in a moment of chaos" - Ed Steck

and in few poets can life and work be so intimately interwoven: Adam Feinstein provides an illuminating introduction which puts these poems in the context of a man of memorable actions as well as words

Habib Selmi – The Scents of Marie-Claire

Born in France but drawn to the magic and potential of Hiberno-English after moving to Dublin in the late 1970s

We celebrate

Spoils Ines Abassi funny and sincere - toIn Spoils James Brookes advances a lyrical, frank and unsparing consideration of the England in which we find ourselves. While retaining the historical interest and folkloric reinvention of his spectacular debut Sins of the Leopard, Brookes has clarified his poetic concerns into the less comfortable questions of freedom and liberty. In this new book his praise of the achievements of one figure is necessarily tempered by a curt frustration at the lives