Spoils Ines Abassi We celebrate

We celebrate

Born in France but drawn to the magic and potential of Hiberno-English after moving to Dublin in the late 1970s

A collection of autobiographical stories about growing up in the Jewish East End in the 1930s

and in few poets can life and work be so intimately interwoven: Adam Feinstein provides an illuminating introduction which puts these poems in the context of a man of memorable actions as well as words

and writing poetry feels like letting out her wild

Spoils Ines Abassi We celebrateIn Spoils James Brookes advances a lyrical, frank and unsparing consideration of the England in which we find ourselves. While retaining the historical interest and folkloric reinvention of his spectacular debut Sins of the Leopard, Brookes has clarified his poetic concerns into the less comfortable questions of freedom and liberty. In this new book his praise of the achievements of one figure is necessarily tempered by a curt frustration at the lives