The Breaking of the Day Aimee Sands

The Breaking of the Day Aimee SandsThe Breaking of the Day is a book built around a 3 piece title sequence as Michael Heffernan, now in his seventies, reflects on life from his own backyard. The poems venture outwards to take in the whole of Ireland, northern Michigan and the shores of the Great Lakes, even a tumbledown Parisian backstreet. Together they convey an increasing uncertainty in the power of human testimony, seeking solace in the control of the classical metre and vision of

fearlessness and love

Sai is currently a member of digital arts collective Virtual Migrants

Now far from his homeland

and Hiroshima

The poets featured are: Vesa Haapala

the village cut-throat

Frankfurt: 2006 Book Fair

John Jordan (1930-88) was a leading light in the literary life of Dublin from the 1950s until his death in Cardiff in June 1988

"Perhaps the most significant thing to be said about Red is that the poets in this volume burst through any constraining label with writing that throbs and pulses and seeps and flows

His work also features in the Forward Book of Poetry 2009

Wafa Al-Bueissa

Tony Harrison