El HachoEl Hacho is a timeless evocation of inheritance, duty and our relationship to the landscape that defines us. Set in the stark beauty of the Andalucan mountains it tells the story of Curro, an olive farmer determined to honour his family tradition in the face of drought, deluge and the lucrative temptations of a rapidly modernising Spain. Wonderfully crafted, El Hacho is a poignant and compelling story of struggle and hope.

From the joyful creativity of German compound words to having his prime number poetry shared on TED

Airless Spaces follows characters in psychiatric wards and out in the streets of New York City to move beyond the spectacular and frightening surfaces of institutional spaces to record acts of cruelty and kindness

In the course of a day J

Di Slaney’s sophisticated

Michael Crowley turned the story of this small

Visitors include: Aphrodite whose house is above the shore and her family from Athens

and fights off the internalised voice of her godly

Best of Irish Poetry 2009 (Southword Editions) and Identity Parade: New British and Irish Poets (Ed Roddy Lumsden

unrequited yearnings

she expresses her views plainly: the Iraq War was unnecessary and the plight of the Palestinians is appalling

On offer is a kaleidoscopic journey into the intersecting struggles for our future

Anahita Rezaei