Brandy SourWhen it was built in the 1950s, nothing symbolised Cyprus entering the modern world like the Ledra Palace Hotel. In Constantia Soterious jewel of a novella, the ambitions and shortcomings of the islands turbulent twentieth century are played out by its occupants. Among them we meet the king in exile who needs to drown his sorrows with a drink disguised to look like tea; the porter who, among the English roses of the hotel's gardens, secretly plants a

You'll find everything from the panda to the bumble-bee

such as household bleach

In war as in the Forbidden City

for a time

that child

Faraj Bou al-Isha: Six poems

she heads south for LA

Roopnaraine never loses sight of the fact that Greaves is a Guyanese artist with explicit

life stories and musical styles of many remarkable musicians who played with stars like Louis Armstrong

both based in the School of Art

A collection of poems taken from sold out shows combined with new work written at a time when that was no longer possible

And I must serve their freedoms with my own