A Sixty Watt Las VegasA Sixty Watt Las Vegas is the first full length poetry collection from Mike Di Placido. The title, and much of the collection, is an affectionate dig at the expense of his home town of Scarborough in North Yorkshire. As well as observations on the town and its culture, past and present, the collection features cameos from various literary figures of note (Dickens faces up to Pizza Hut, TS Eliot shows up at a coffee bar), and gentle, affecting

Douglas Thompson explores the vagaries around a father's death and new to Dream Catcher

Aroussia Naluti and Salwa al-Neimi

farcical digressions and surrealist timekeeping

poets and urban cartographers

Ana Romani

Abdul Wahab al-Bayati: Poem Death and the Lamp

he has also published diaries and autobiography

Editorial – Farewell

Shortlisted for the 2011 Popescu Prize for Poetry Translated from a European Language into English

grew up in France and Wales and lives in London

and Drumcliffe

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