Brief LivesIn Brief Lives, six fictions by Christopher Meredith take the reader from the South China Sea in 1946 to a nameless place at the end of time, where the dead have risen. In between are stories in the new post war South Wales, in which characters sense their aloneness while being a part of the larger world. The individual and community has been at the heart of much of Merediths prose and poetry, as it has been in British life over the last century, and

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The best writing from Galicia’s outstanding contemporary women poets awaits the reader of To the Winds Our Sails

Popescu Prize for European Poetry in Translation

Her cast of eccentric characters live somewhere on the coast of Greeneland

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