AweAWE is the tale of the three dead letters of the English language: Thorn, Eth, and AE (pronounced ). The teller of these stories, for there are more than one, is an old cat (O C) with the sad excuse of a story tale, er, tail; and a mess of other possible tails and worlds (that is), a mess of If(f)s; both blissful and broken by the sheer, immense particularity of it all; and so he glows in the dark. A wise cat among wonders. A cat who challenges all

with a sharp sense of the threat that these journeys

Ben Borek is unique: no-one else writes like this

the poems in Patrick Chapman's remarkable third collection explore with often searing clarity the naked spaces of love

and he knows how to rhyme as well

Summon up A Man's House Catches Fire

an unremembered early twentieth-century poet

a reluctant hitman bound to a life of killing until he can find the man who murdered his mother

The boon provided to emerging writers by this opportunity should not be underestimated

The ship sleeps on the shore

Elena Ignatova

But he has also written many eloquent and immediately accessible poems that celebrate manifold aspects of Caribbean culture: cricket

voices both irreverent and responsible