Brink Jalal Hakmaoui

Brink Jalal HakmaouiBrink opens with its title poem and it stays on the brink of various worlds and conditions throughout. Most crucial is the brink between life and death, each of which is seen from the perspective of the other as in the great five part sequence Republic, showing how death is interwoven into life. But, precarious as the brink is, the unyieldingly sympathetic foundation of these poems in the reality of family and immediate perception is wholly

A young refugee wants to box her way straight off the boat to the top of the sport

the first records of deaf people using manual signs to communicate date back to the sixteenth century

Although his dream of making a film about his deaf mute father is never realised

Disarmingly vulnerable and intensely liberating

Published in the USA by Penguin

Rich in the imagery of the Amazonian jungle (fire ants

He returned to work in Stepney

How could it when it has so much to show

It reads just as good forwards as backwards

and text are neither one thing nor another

William M Hutchins

Anthony Vahni Capildeo