How Kyoto Breaks Your HeartHow Kyoto Breaks Your Heart is a collection about the ways in which heartbreak can fill a place and make it impossible to stay. 20 something and uncertain about her future, Florentyna Leow is exhilarated when an old acquaintance offers her an opportunity for work and cohabitation in a little house in the hills of Kyoto. Florentyna begins a new job as a tour guide, taking tourists on elaborate and expensive trips around Kyotos cultural hotspots. Amidst

Rainbird’s war experiences badly marked him and he ended up alcoholic

No one knows when or why this came to be

"One of the wonderful things about Gerald Dawe's work

On restless streets

where they believe the narrator

Indeed many of the poems in this collection conjure the life of a young man abroad in that city

​During this time Peter Richardson was at Derby College of Art embarking on a course in photojournalism

Seth Freedman is a contracted journalist on the Guardian’s Comment is Free

I know this in my scant Estonian: that laul

whose life stretches from Istanbul to Beirut because of his obsessive love for Maryam

Penniless Peggin is taken in and given work as a maid by the renowned Ladies of Llangollen

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