Collected Short FictionOriginally published between 1985 and 2012, these stories offer an enthralling introduction to the work of one of contemporary fictions greatest magicians, and a map of Gerald Murnanes evolution as a writer. Spare, transparent and profane, This career spanning volume ranges from Finger Web, a fractal tale of the scars of war and the roots of misogyny, to Land Deal, which imagines Australias colonisation and the ultimate vengeance of its indigenous

from the gentle to the brutal

Jo Reed’s second collection offers readers more of her trademark mix of memory

as well as a playfulness more reminiscent of Paul Muldoon at his riddling

previously published in the Bloodaxe collection Ten North-East Poets: An Anthology (1980)

Fflur Dafydd was born in 1978 in Carmarthen

jackrabbits and drifting hawks

the enigmatic power of the pyramids is skilfully interwoven with threads of Islamic history and Sufi mysticism in a quest for wisdom and enlightenment

Muhammad Iqbal and his Irish-language versions of haiku masters Issa

brief essays

Eoin Rogers

Butterfly Valley is Sherko Bekes’ response to these atrocities

but Arthur more so