Somewhere Something is BurningAn examination of solitude and absence, the poems within this collection grapple with the reality and taboo of loneliness pitted against an anxiety of connecting. Exploring human relationships, breakdown in communication, and silence self inflicted or otherwise the poems give voice to the fears and experiences that shape us, and interrogate the ways in which we process and avoid. Frecknalls leaps of surreality, extreme empathy and vivid imagery make

as troubled spinsters contemplating suicide

selected from more than 500 submitted

That Was the Week That Was and other TV and radio programmes

without a backward glance at anyone

Flisar was  president of the Slovene Writers’ Association from 1995 – 2002

combines love poems with political satire

queer erotics

'the mucus of slugs'

the poetic and professional to explore what illness

Many are now retired and are no longer subject to police disciplinary procedures

But her hunt for the truth has not gone unnoticed by those close to her

although not absent