The Funeral Game Nazih Abu Afash

The Funeral Game Nazih Abu AfashThe Funeral Game travels a pathway between two worlds, holding and reconciling Earth and Heaven Life and Death as one reality. A soul landscape of changing myths, fugitive idols, where fantasy is at play and collection is coloured by a deep rooted spirituality and a longing for change in an ageing Christianity, much challenged by the secular. The Funeral Game is Monahan's way of reinventing himself and travelling on. "His poems have such vivacity that

” — Lloyd Jones

as Sasha Dugdale points out in her introduction

or coming ‘home’ to post-Wall Berlin - whether musing on a lake-locked mansion

is not allowed to darken the material

but the past continues to spring surprises

salting and curing small game

as well as collections of his own poetry

I’ll leave such fancy tricks to Zeus

Richard Gwyn

Red does find its usual associations with blood

Lewis's death in an accident while on active service was a huge loss to English literature

who launched the collection