Goodbye BayIt is 1963, one year after Independence, and Trinidadians are beginning to wonder what they can expect. Anna takes a temporary post at a remote post office in a small coastal town, hoping to escape a failed relationship, and the drama, pressures and politics of her city life. But neither time or space is granted, as the life of Macaima passes through the post office, and Anna reluctantly begins to take on the villagers stories which prove to be just

a new generation of Iraqi fiction writers and poets who are free to write the story of Iraq we’ve been waiting to hear

"Paul Perry's début collection startled me

But in a long and extraordinary life he was many other things besides

including the presence of unregistered immigrants from Haiti

+ Notes on the poets and translators

Halperin’s uniquely conversational poetic mode is known to those who have followed his ‘late arrival’ beginning with the seminal Anniversary (2010

a portrait of her sister the poet Saniya Salih

I wrap the leftovers in ferns to be eaten cold tomorrow

But the past is intent on coming for her

his reports are followed

The story reflects how our modern world is shaped but above all it is about its people

In 2011 Nancy Charley spent six weeks in a little blue beach hut on Tankerton Slopes