Thirsty Sea Z.R. Ghani

Thirsty Sea Z.R. GhaniA psychological portrait of all the insecurities and challenges of a young woman in a restless search for her own place in life. Switching between different narrative modes poetry and comedy, memoir and stream of consciousness Thirsty Sea chronicles a day in the life of a young woman in a state of free fall, haunted by her past, sidestepping her present, and stalked by a future she is reluctant to meet. But while Maria seems trapped in her impossible,

in Swansea

In this collection from the winner of Sweden’s August Prize

Hollywood movies

Elaine Whitesides' book The Bairn is reprinted especially for the IRON OR Festival

Andrew Fentham

if it does

’ The poems here rediscover the familiar intimacies of love

Scavenius’s universe is chilling and excruciatingly seductive

how it has become our story too

What does it mean to fight for a ‘mother country’ that refuses to accept you as one of its own

Silver Harvest follows four generations as they make their lives by the sea

in addition to the atmosphere and cultural innovations of 1920s Berlin