The Stack of Owls is Getting HigherIn a sequence of poems set in the mountainous Deep South of America, Dawn Watson vividly evokes an ominous landscape of gas stations, jackrabbits and drifting hawks, where copperhead snakes fall out of branches and magnolia cones thum[p] the roofs of wooden outhouses. These poems, based on the writers time spent in Georgia, Tennessee and the Carolinas, are interwoven with pieces set in the poets native Belfast which speak urgently to the raw realities

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During that time he set up a community publishing initiative and a long- lasting inter-generational poetry project in Cable Street

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as told by Palestinian author and resident of the city Mahmoud Shukair

The fate of her beloved elder brother has done more than leave her bereft

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violence and hope

that he carried on wholesale piracy in the Gulf of Paria

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becoming a close friend of Lawrence Durrell and Bernard Spencer

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