My Mother Laughs Olivia McCannonIn 2013, the filmmaker Chantal Akerman's mother was dying. She flew back from New York to care for her, and between dressing her, feeding her and putting her to bed, she wrote. She wrote about her childhood, the escape her mother made from Auschwitz but didn't talk about, the difficulty of loving her girlfriend, C., her fear of what she would do when her mother did die. Among these imperfectly perfect fragments of writing about her life, she placed
Norris introduces a strong metaphysical element which makes the poems
its Victorian makers in the Leek Embroidery Society
Fair as a shell conch
Red is published by Inscribe
Joseph Lennon’s first volume of poetry
and works as a writer and broadcaster with Radio Bremen
following degrees in history at Aberystwyth and Manchester
when he found the calypso icon standing alone for a moment in the heat of Port of Spain’s Queen’s Park Savannah
Santiago Sketches is one of the first books in English about living in that city to which millions have travelled
Her poems have also been exhibited at the Royal Festival Hall in London
a personal chronicle of literary life
Joelle Taylor
