The President's Room Deborah Tyler-Bennett

The President's Room Deborah Tyler-BennettTranslated by Charlotte Coombe In a nameless suburb in an equally nameless country, every house has a room reserved for the president. No one knows when or why this came to be. Its simply how things are, and no one seems to question it except for one young boy. The room is kept clean and tidy, nobody talks about it and nobody is allowed to use it. It is for the president and no one else. But what if he doesnt come? And what if he does? As events

brings together a series of provocative

Mohamed al-Harthy

including academic studies of Dickens' major novels

or celebrate boyhood in the countryside

They are shaped by the belief that a poem should be a made thing

which raise The Old And The Young to the level of a classic

He has published numerous books

Boyd Tonkin in The Independent wrote that MPT "has a rare and precious talent"

Rhian Elizabeth is 24 and from the Rhondda

Any lyric poem

Natural Bridge

and a big one at that