Night VisionWith his dexterity as a writer, Hippolyte speaks through and beyond tradition. He writes in sonnet, triolet, villanelle and echo poem; in idiomatic dramatic monologues that capture the rhythms of Caribbean speech; in blues and rap poems; in free verse that draws upon the long breath incantatory lines of Ginsberg and contracts in miniaturist forms as concise as graffiti. While urbanisation expands and fragments his home of St. Lucia, Hippolyte draws

Yannis Kondos

Paul Chaoul – Excerpt from the play The Visitor

Her prose work includes Clearing The Space

George Szirtes (with Veronika Krasnova): From the Introduction to Six poems

laughing already

was signalled by the Abbey Theatre Company

songs of exile and songs against exile

In the 1960s he was heavily involved in the anti-war movement in the USA

His recent translations include works by the Swedish humorist Albert Engström

These poems and experimental texts oscillate between sense and nonsense

translated by Camilo Gomez-Rivas

A Certain Koslowski