If I Had the WingsTo be gay and growing up in the small Greek Bahamian community, which feels its traditional culture and religious pieties are under threat, is fraught with constraints and even danger. The main characters in Helen Klonariss poetic, inventive and sometimes transgressive collection of short stories confront this reality as part of their lives. Yet there are also ways in which young women in several of the stories search for roots in that tradition to

Patrick Moran's first collection was widely praised

Swarf is a book about life in a small town

– Dave Holland

the Club Eleven

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Dublin with her husband and daughter

the ease of a great writer: that you don't notice the lightning as it emerges from the depths

Abdul Rahman al-Majedi: Four Poems

Donald Gardner

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Emilio García Gómez

Woke up this Morning is a hitch-hiker’s guide to cultural alienation