ClaspClasp is award winning poet Doireann N Ghrofas first English language collection of poems. In three sections entitled Clasp, Cleave and Clench, N Ghrofa engages in a strikingly physical way with the world of her subject matter. The result is by times what one poem calls A History in Hearts, among other things an intimate exploration of love, childbirth and motherhood, and simultaneously a place of separation and anxiety. In one poem set in the boys

all of us grow up wondering who we are and who we might be

Ted Hughes took part in a programme

smell the smoke

then overlap with

his work in sculpture and ceramics

• Robin Fulton on Robin Robertson’s Tranströmer

with poets writing about rootlessness and geographical ennui

His poems and reviews have appeared in PN Review

which rapidly sold out

Alistair Elliot

In harmony with this event

and Katrina Porteous