Deception IslandWelcome to Deception Island, a tiny Volcanic caldera in the Antarctic Ocean. Here the rusting remains of industrial whaling and a seabed littered with whalebones testify to mankinds greed and brutality. But the island is also an outpost of scientific exploration, witness to human attentiveness and fortitude. As the ship carrying the authors father edges through the basalt cliffs into the calmer waters of Deception Island, the islands many voices,

As Professor Raymond Tallis says in his foreword

In his introduction

Arc New Voices from Europe and Beyond: 4

The empathy of the reader cannot be understated

and a love song to the gloriously messy real life of the city he calls home

it's the crimes of the Nazi era

in affectionate portrait and close-reading analysis

is an astonishing

Anton Shammas

Mansoura Ezeldin A short story Butrus: A Distant Hazy Face

’  Derek Mahon ‘Wyeth is a beachcomber on the edge of his own infinities

Anna Robinson