Down by the River: the Thames and Kennet in Reading Thomas Lehr

Down by the River: the Thames and Kennet in Reading Thomas LehrThe book is attractively designed, thoroughly researched, and generously provided with maps, drawings, and contemporary photographs, many not seen before. The author writes with local people in mind and her book will be of interest to local and family historians, as well as those with an interest in river activities. The book tells the stories of those who worked on the rivers: millers, bargemasters, lock keepers, fishermen and boat builders. And

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due out in October

Hassouna Mosbahi and Hassan Najmi

Stephen Watts begins a regular review of poetry in translation with Mahmoud Darwish’s Why Did you Leave the Horse alone

Per Wästberg

enjoyable and pacey

welcome voice in a time of stalled metaphors and gassy rhetoric

Patrizia Cavalli

Through Searle's belief that by investing words with meaning

Dewi Roberts

his poems range through conventional form and lyric voice to provocative fragments of intuitive

He lives in Glasgow