The Finest Years & MeIt is 1942, and the war is not going well for Britain. Winston Churchill faces enemies across the world, inside his own parliament, and within his very body and soul. His former batman Jamie Melville, having left London in 1919 to build a life of his own, has been struck with a bitter tragedy. Glimpses of the man he used to be are becoming increasingly rare. It takes an unexpected proposal from the Minister of Information to return Jamie to London, to

We sat on the bench and to begin with I was trembling again so badly that he must have thought I was mad or had something on my conscience or whatever

Juan Gelman

deprivations and dangers of the Gallipoli campaign in which 50

They include some beautiful natural descriptions along with moving personal revelations

As an economist he is-among others-an adviser to the Hungarian government

Latest in Seren’s New Stories from the Mabinogion series

worked with the great popular musicians and entertainers

psalm-like prose poems of enormous courage and insight

Letters to Ted (2003)

including at the Guinness Book of Records marathon at Dublin’s Irish Writers’ Centre

editor of Socialist Review

which demonstrates our commitment to the poem rather than the poet