Lady Rob McLellan

Lady Rob McLellanLady, the first full collection of poems by Laurie Bolger, arrives with an effervescent rush of endorphins and explores the many roles girls and women are asked to play and the dressing up outfits they try on for size whether housewife or hen, sister or mum, landlady, exercise instructor or best friend forever. Bolgers poems turn her bold, funny and wise words on boys, body image and the pressure to make yourself fit into a pigeon hole when all you

and a writer who wrote in a variety of genres (speculative fiction

Liudmilla Zubova

his Tweets are variously fables

Its shrinking households

The resulting bilingual volume is a fascinating and enlightening introduction to Portuguese poetry

Perhaps most striking

but are also revealed as the origin of much of the suffering in the novel

representative of the Forum for Democracy

she escapes into the mountains

She dreams of a world beyond the defunct slagheaps of post-industrial Wales and

They include the well-known poets Amjad Nasser and Khaled Mattawa

Issa J Boullata