The VisitationsThe Visitations is the follow up to Kathryn Simmonds Forward Prize winning debut, Sunday at the Skin Launderette. The poems are entertaining, amusing and accessible, but unafraid to bring in darker themes and worlds unseen. The tone shifts throughout between the elegiac and the sharply satirical, lit up with lifes moments of sudden illumination: a life coach finds an old passport, an infant teeters on the brink of speech. This playful and knowing

Time intended to use any new material gathered by the detective to defend its portrait of Dylan who

Escaping to Asia

‘The P45’ and ‘The Crash’ kick-start edgy narratives

And then there is Seduce’s old lover

that's what the Guayaki Indians believe

Amy Wack has edited a number of anthologies for Seren including Oxygen and Burning the Bracken

sometimes resentful of the Church’s claims

"John McKeown’s dark

greasy-palmed yet colourfully enticing world

such as self-deprecating irony and stylistic aplomb

pull off our socks

Shortlisted for the 2011 Popescu Prize for Poetry Translated from a European Language into English