The Disappearance BoyChildhood polio has left Reggie Rainbow with a limp, but his strong arms and nimble fingers are perfect behind the scenes of down at heel variety theatreswhere he helps illusionist Mr Brookes disappear his glamorous assistants. When Mr Brookes accepts a booking at the Brighton Grand, Reggie finds himself in a strange new town. The seaside air works its own magic and the disappearance boy begins to wonder how much longer he can go on keeping secrets

yet anchored in an unapologetic beauty and lyricism

Laird follows in the path of Ladoo to Canada

and its ministers

Elizabeth Harris

To this core of work The Complete Poems adds his renderings of Welsh poet Dafydd ap Gwilym

Because what’s captured in such a book is the jittery

This volume

at times deeply in love

author Kate Smith is fascinated by legal constructs

both queer and Native spaces in and around the Gowanus through a radical reshaping of English

Michael Mackmin

Rasheed el-Anany pays tribute to the late Alfred Farag (1929-2005)