Aberfan Format:Paperback

Aberfan Format:PaperbackOn 21 October 1966, thousands of tons of coal tip waste slid down a mountainside and devastated the mining village of Aberfan. The black mass crashed through the local primary school, where pupils were celebrating the last day of term. 144 people were killed including 116 schoolchildren. Gaynor Madgwick was there. She was 8 years old and was severely injured. Her brother and sister were in classrooms either side of her. Both were killed. In Aberfan,

Flight Paths (2011) is the story of a Leeds girl’s rollercoaster journey from Bempton Cliffs to Flamborough on a midsummer’s day

printed a decade after Neighbor‘s original publication

of births and new beginnings

translated by Kenneth Steven

the spoken language of that part of northern Britain in the sixth century

I hated subtexts

Rana al-Tonsi Poems from A Rose for the Last Days

as told in Six Pounds Eight Ounces

the poems explore intimacy

celebrations of the land and anger at its abuse

rooflines and churches – the town that’s shaped her and her artwork and where Oscar spent an unhappy period in gaol

embodying her mantra: “whatever happens