SparksSparks is the third collection of passionate, poignant poetry from much loved Hull based author Norah Hanson. The fiery wit and hard won wisdom that characterised her previous collections are here, intact, with a new level of clarity and purpose adding weight to the words without losing the warmth, wonder, and laugh out loud observational skills that have won Norah readers across the world. Now six times a great grandmother, the poet's life experience

comedy sits alongside tragedy

Güner Grass

Kate Potts

Rachel McNicholl

He has lived nearly half his life outside Iraq

which illustrates with examples how he deals with moving what’s on the paper into a ‘real time

told with rough charm

Ticker-tape is bold

well-crafted prose

geese are considered silly creatures

He was jailed twice by the Israeli authorities

Lakshmi Holmström recently co-edited The Rapids of a Great River: the Penguin Book of Tamil Poetry (2010)