The Last CandlesThe Last Candles confirms Tony Curtis's stature as a poet. In it he develops his prize winning narrative style, bringing a vast range of contemporary and historical perspectives into play in poems private and public about the two world wars and the revolutions in Russia and the Empire. There are poems, too, about visual art, a preoccupation of the author, with painting, sculpture and photography all prominent. And there are intimate poems about family

choking me

attempting to put it into the context of how he lives now

this outpost of a crumbling Roman Empire has become an international city

Elias Farkouh – Three short stories Creation

Sage blends meditations on animals familiar and strange

infected with copious amounts of tongue-in-cheek humour

the poems are accompanied by wonderfully eye-catching illustrations by Rose Sanderson

translated by Mark Griffiths

The wine’s long flame

Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1870-1876) is one of the most influential figures in English Cathedral Music

In Augustin's world the absurdities and the Gordian knots of existence are neatly unravelled with surprising nimbleness and with laughter

even if it’s only the return from the local grocery store