FarIn a housing development in the middle of the nowhere, one of the many that were built in Spain, but never finished because of the crash, la small community of neighbours, trying to lead a normal life, despite living far from everything. Beyond the development that promised every luxury, beyond the streets leading nowhere, behind a high metal fence, the unfinished houses menace the inhabitants as they become occupied by people on the fringes of

Irish Examiner

drinking rain through a straw

as well as Writer-in-Residence at Augustana College

Mama Darlin' the village midwife and Mr Cumberbatch the Chief Mourner

and the long work of grieving which culminates in the title poem

Mohja Kahf who writes in English

realisation

especially women

and his coalition of the righteous

The third instalment in the chronicles of Isambard Smith – Captain in the service of the British Space Empire

1971) and Karlis Verdins (b

‘His poetry always exhibits a lightness