A Foreign CountryIn A Foreign Country, Nigel Pantling takes us to some strange places the exotic, the imaginary and the rediscovered past and for each he serves up a heady local brew, equal parts memory, invention, wit and menace. Here, North Korean tourists rub shoulders with Syrian adventurers, the newly dead with a City lothario, Popeye and Olive Oyl with Cold War warriors. Surprising and unsettling by turns, these poems are a whistle stop journey though different

Among Ulick O'Connor's prodigious literary output as biographer

He has published two pamphlets – breathing for all my birds (Dovetail Press

Jalil Heidar: Poems

Laila al-Ouhaydib

through Salybia

The book tells the story of fourteen-year-old Adam

Lola finds the words that will piece together the binary code of family and restart the recovery program

1998) and published The Dialogue of the Ancients of Ireland (2009)

"- Kate Saunders

Natural Bridge

Her first collection

The Voguls still had shamans until the eighties of the twentieth century