AngstA woman replays her abandonment by her mother, who is sometimes addressed as a male mother god. She is also abandoned by her lover, to whom she is in thrall. She tries repeatedly to make or receive phone calls with the beloved figures, without success. She waits for their letters and imagines their contents. In a dream like, torrid sequence, suffering, fear, fatigue and imperfection are apostrophised. Forgetting is examined and toyed with from every

and sometimes

Stafford Ashani Harrison and Mustapha Matura

is undertaking an elaborate study of the night sky

it’s one of the most effective accounts of the onset and experience of mental illness

and humanity’s relationship to the natural environment

Walid Khazendar

James Kirkup: Poems of Chawki Abdelamir L’Obélisque d’Anaïl

Sixties (including that of Black feminism)

seabirds and passengers

she has a series of flashbacks about a friend who committed suicide years earlier

losing a parent

unadorned and undiluted clarity as the miniature paeans to unrealisable love