Dead FliesForty five years ago Eduardo Embry came from the England of South America to a country green as a crocodile, where Sunday always lasts all day and there are no angels in the allotments. Dead Flies is a book of tall tales, fables, riddles and unlikely stories about the strange, sly logic of disobedient matter and the indecent mischief of things a bloody razor, the modesty of trees, books with blue eyes, a Cartesian glass of water and poems that speak

The result is by times what one poem calls ‘A History in Hearts’

after Seepersad’s tragically early death

They sing of the exhalations and exhaustions of the streets and of the vast cities of Spain

Christina Thatcher

& the wonders of everyday life in Madrid

to explore subjects that arrest us today

In a former life he worked in advertising – he has been clean for over 13 years and now works with selected grassroots community organisations through his artist/activist promotions agency

he agrees to accompany the couple to a lavish party in Pest

selfhood and womanhood

He resigned as mayor and left for Portici

2006) and Love’s Enterprise Zone (Doire Press

Said and Done celebrates ten years of publishing new writers by literary magazine Brittle Star