Yellow GoldA dentist's girlfriend with cavities, an elderly career criminal with no one to turn to but the police, a dismissed housemaid on the way to a back alley abortion clinic and a crane operator whos never had a man treat her right, for whom gold is cashed out love. These are the stories of the people from Chinas liminal sprawl, who seek a fresh start beyond a neglected countryside that's no longer home and a metropolis indifferent to their existence. As

Detective Ran Dongdong has two problems

for his first poetry collection

comes to dominate their already flawed marriage

Laura Sims envisions the state of the world and of human existence before

and Spike Island and Cork Prisons

This volume

Fiona Cooper

The poems she writes are always musical

The poems in this anthology examine hierarchy

as this book reveals to a new audience

of a paranoia and miserliness that gradually takes over Jane Chirp’s life and leads her to move to ever more cramped and dingy flats where she surrounds herself with her belongings like a besieged hermit

as well as contemporary poets including Natalia Toledo