QuickQuick is the first collection of poems by Peter Spafford; a professional writer for more than twenty years, appearing in print here for the first time. By day, Spafford writes scripts for theatre, radio, musical theatre and opera. His poems are, out of necessity, creatures of the night; all the pieces in this collection dodged the searchlights and crept under the wire in the last five years. They are drawn from family relationships, friendships, a

They were intermediaries between human beings and the highest god

Stewart Conn on Derek Mahon

Northumberland in 1972

could fit into the latest Bloodaxe catalogue with relative ease

Saleem Barakat: Excerpts from the novel The Crossing of the Flamingo

This is the first new book to be published about Llandaff Cathedral for more than a century

has published three previous books of poetry: Mutual Trespasses (1988)

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was to the threatened dispersal of the Jewish people: that they should be 'a diaspora in all kingdoms of the earth'

and an introduction by his great-nephew

Things To Do Before You Leave Town

Evald Flisar is a novelist