Blue RoomThe poems in Blue Room traverse the features and landscapes of John Kavanaghs homeland, the West of Ireland. Throughout his work, Kavanagh is drawn into personal reflection on impending crises in our culture, ecology and environment, the signs of which are all around him. This fear for the future is balanced against the transcendent possibilities of, and insights gained from, being the father of two young boys. John Kavanagh is from Sligo. His

The second feature continues the New Writing in Egypt

the southern England of his early working life

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and The Memory Tray was shortlisted for a Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection

it should attract a large and enthusiastic audience" Paul Avrich

Don’t Ever Get Famous: Essays on New York Writing After the New York School (editor and contributor)

His published translations include To The Silenced ñ Selected Poems of Georg Trakl (2005) and the first English translation of Journeys

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Through Searle's belief that by investing words with meaning

tense and bloody political thriller whose characters draw the reader into the events from page one

who proposes a new life outside Jamaica

A plan is hatched