Captain Jesus"When three brothers find a dead magpie and peg it to the washing line, the resurrection re enactment becomes a portent of tragedy to come, and a reminder of past guilt and trauma. In Captain Jesus we see a family struggle to cope as loss rips through their lives; through the teenage eyes of their mother, twenty years earlier, we glimpse the events that shape her response. The icons, influences and family histories that define faith connect the two

A child is born and everything is made anew

They sing of the exhalations and exhaustions of the streets and of the vast cities of Spain

Slesinger’s stories can be satirical

as Rudolph Steiner would have it

by Marie Fadel as told to Rafik Schami

forced to live on the margins of American and Irish societies

the city and its phenomena or about relationships

Stephen Watts Poems of Mourid Barghouti A Small Sun

This involved the wholesale clearance of houses

As the sole proprietor of the store

affection and irritation

not frightened of complexity or of embarking on journeys of discovery in ways that relate him to the radical fictions of Wilson Harris and Latin American magical realism