Seahouses Padraig O'Morain

Seahouses Padraig O'MorainIn his first collection of poetry, Richard Barnett turns a precise gaze and a musical sensibility on the worlds we inherit and the worlds we make for ourselves. In the award winning title sequence, the sea sifts and rolls through the dreams of an old man asleep in a deckchair, conjuring a vision of Englands history and our human crossings. Seahouses is a distinctively English work of low modernism, cranky, eloquent, broken hearted. It is a book for

lit up with life’s moments of sudden illumination: a life coach finds an old passport

the first of which are to express their thoughts and the abolition of all forms of censorship on audio-visual media and literature

including in secure units

who describes the large-scale events that made international headlines

It features translations

rather than his notable height

Richard Murphy

"Andy Willoughby is a power-house of creative energy

at times deeply in love

Boullata: Short story Bar-room confessions

His first collection of poems

Ian McEwen