The Girl Who Forgets How to WalkWe never speak of it, but here we know the land cant be trusted The debut book from Cumbrian poet Kate Davis tells a personal narrative of the contraction of polio as a young girl, her subsequent disability and slow rehabilitation. A book of things known and not known, of untrustworthy ground and unsteady bodies, The Girl Who Forgets How to Walk finds comfort in the ancient limestone of her home county as she teaches herself to move again along its

“Meditation on the Shores of Evening

blood and belonging

Callie Gardner

and pleasure

delighting in the intricacies of family politics or contemplating the bleak parameters of loss

or even how perfectly ordinary things can 'balk account'

Ismith Khan was born in Trinidad in 1925

prose and criticism

Cardwell provides a history of the harp in Wales: how it grew to prominence

the BBC World Service in London

his work has been published in Italian

edited by Roddy Lumsden (2010)