Space Odes Wytske Versteeg

Space Odes Wytske VersteegRTA Parkers Space Odes is an entertainingly bonkers romp of constellation and collage, writing and re writing its entertainingly allusive way through intertextual space lampooning, deriding, despairing at and celebrating robots, the universe, love and sport (cricket, mostly) in a wonky poetics of anxiety and joy at the world we are thoroughly and catastrophically screwing up. No Catharsis. No bust through into the empyrean. No illumination. It ends

talks faster

Ahmad Al Malik

· Easy to dip into

Set in a ‘present’ of 1956 when political change was coming to Trinidad

Rather than ‘emotion recollected in tranquility’ many of these short poems encapsulate the aggravations of love untempered by any fireside philosophy

and his absence left a space that nobody else could fill

Santiago Sketches is a book of short

A black comedy about sex

Listowel Writers' Week and The Cúirt International Festival of Literature

From the Pushcart Prize-nominated title poem

The Dictionary itself is Quixotic

is a collection of letters and stories written by Jewish refugees