‘At Sea’

‘At Sea’ He dives. Can hold his breath a long time. Thatha has passed to him this knowledge long ago. Strange boats in the harbour, water undulating, currents colder by edges, these steel flanks    he has no words for   their size, the...

Review of Simon Tedeschi’s Fugitive

Fugitive is a rare lyrical joy. Though a glance inside its covers, with its narrow columns of fragmentary observations, broken by hand-drawn infinity symbols might frighten off a reader un-used to such conventions, it would be a loss to them to walk away without...

Review of Al Campbell’s The Keepers

Al Campbell’s The Keepers is a book about possibilities, imagination, and most profoundly, love. It opens with a scrapbook entry about the death of an autistic child who has escaped from respite care. Imminent death is a constant possibility, and Jay, the mother of...