A Pocketful of Chalk Andrew Wynn Owen

A Pocketful of Chalk Andrew Wynn OwenThe South Downs lie at the heart of this collection the sunsets and huge skies, cliffs and fossils, fishing vessels and windmills, people and sheep. Past, present and future collide within geological and emotional landscapes. Life erupts magically out of plum trees. Love is as friable as chalk, and as deeply underpinned. A lost father is redeemed through the gift of a chocolate rabbit, a loved one returns in the shape of a trombone. Mothers, both

or Ophelia

The novels range from works in progress to ones with great reputations and about to be published in translation

The Sea Needs No Ornament/ El mar no necesita ornamento is the first bilingual anthology of contemporary poetry by women writers of the English- and Spanish-speaking Caribbean and its diasporas to be curated in more than two decades

Raymond Antrobus

Translation sends it down the tradewinds

or a café

"The Drowning of the Saints is a remarkable triumph

adapted from the novel The Heron

"He is that curious mix of guru

worldwide and perennial

partly a satire about the glittery set that throngs this literary venue year in year out

Sammy Davis Junior