Carrying a Tree on the Bus to Low EdgesWriting in northern time through lockdowns and into the meta crises since, Stephen Sawyer asks urgent questions about what it is that makes us human in the face of so many threats to life and what sustains it. Carrying a Tree on the Bus to Low Edges is a forest of stories and voices, a portrait of the uprooted, unheard, locked in and locked out of place and time, a soulful, luminous meditation to reaffirm bonds and identities that cross borders and

Margaret Obank: Bab el-Oued by Merzak Allouache

I can understand her only too well but get angry with her too

The third adventure in this visceral series inspired by the famous Gladiatrix stele found near Halicarnassus in the 19th century

A novelist

and who lost friends and family to drug abuse

To Test the Joy weaves Taggard’s poetry and prose with critical commentary by Anne Hammond that leads the reader through Taggard’s life

Its poems celebrate the artistry of craftsmanship: how works relate to beauty

and lyrical

and how he became a captain at 14

Edited and translated by Neruda’s acclaimed biographer

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they also confront the isolating nature of the dictatorship he lived through as well as the aggressively optimistic discourse of post-dictatorship “modernization” efforts: the torrential influx of mass media and multinational corporations