Sunshine Sabah Zwein

Sunshine Sabah ZweinSunshine is the powerful new collection from Next Generation Poet Melissa Lee Houghton. A writer of startling confession, her poems ooze confidence and shine a light on human ecstasy and sadness with blinding precision. Melissa Lee Houghton is a bold, observant and daringly honest poet who intuitively knows what she is doing, even when she ventures into the scariest places. Poetry Book Society

” There are poems from Mahmoud Darwish’s last collection

plus an introduction to the country’s literary pioneers with profiles

could fit into the latest Bloodaxe catalogue with relative ease

The descriptive poems in the book’s first part set the scene for the political and artistic perspectives in its second – made up of pieces arising from time spent as poet-in-residence at the Museum of English Rural Life in Reading

Khaled Khalifa

Their literature is already a subject for university study and although we were wary about using such a label of “hyphenated” identification

She is currently an MFA candidate at Warren Wilson College

drinking water and chatting

Danielle Jennings’ exuberant narratives of family history and the struggles for respect between men and women

an anthology of Salmon Poetry

Judith Mok is also a renowned soprano

"Fast becoming Wales’ answer to Irvine Welsh