A City BurningSet in Wales, Northern Ireland and Italy, many of the stories in A City Burning concern a point of choice and decision. Characters reach a turning point at which their lives can become fuller and more meaningful, but at a cost to themselves. In others they bear witness to an event must decide whether to become involved or pass by. They could be ordinary people in Belfast during the Troubles or their aftermath, or during the Covid 19 pandemic, or

but it's the tragic personal story of Alun as he spirals full of self-inflicted guilt toward an ironic

Eoghan Walls

bullying and revenge

Kamau Brathwaite and Martin Carter

concentrating on fiction and travel writing – the latter has taken her to more than thirty countries

“There are poems of homesickness

The title poem 'Heavenly Life'

The poet and musician Anthony Joseph met and spoke to Lord Kitchener just once

Delivered with her signature candour and dark humour

engaging and thoughtful stories

Traditionally

” Marion Thain