Father ConfessorHe must have known he was going to die he must have known how things would end. DCI Ernie Bright is dead. A good cop gone bad? Not everyone believes that one of Tayside Constabularys longest serving detectives was leading a double life. One of those looking to vindicate the dead copper is Brights protg, the private investigator J McNee, who has his own reasons for trying to prove Brights innocence. But as the evidence piles up and McNee makes enemies

written a few months before he died in October 2007

Vic's career has been at the centre of modern jazz in Britain

and its ministers

His work has been published in magazines and collections worldwide

His poems show a mastery of form and technique

Just Like a River by Mohammad Kamel al-Khatib

Badr Shakir al-Sayyab

fooling us with his vernacular stance whilst weaving complex rhyming structures and dissonant melodies… and the poems carry a succulent sting in the tail

ironic eye that he casts on his own country and is as concerned with character and the vagaries of relationships as he is with wider cultural concerns

His doctorate was earned at Loyola University

through empires and republics

Dulce María Loynaz and Mercedes Roffé