Chopping Wood with T.S. Eliot"John Walshs quizzical observer, in pre Troubles Derry, backpacking in Bavaria, or coming home to post Wall Berlin whether musing on a lake locked mansion, fulminating at the news excesses or recalling vanished boyhood heroes finds much virtue in small things, value in the overlooked, validation in natures persistence. Engaged, like the Eliot of his title, in salvaging the poetic and the good from societys wastelands, his wry gaze and gentle tone

Mariam al-Saedi – Two short stories

Ben Howard

Inspired by the Swedish poet Staffan Söderblom's "Six October Poems"

is a regular visitor to Venice

About the editor:

She has translated poetry from Gujarati and German into English

His poems and prose have appeared in over 100 publications around the world

Feature on pioneer Iraqi novelist Ghaib Tu‘ma Farman

These ideas have been the guiding principles behind the poems collected in this volume

serial compositions

and testifies to McBreen's dedication to and enthusiasm for Irish women writers

Her poems have been translated into many languages