Things are not always what they seem in these poems of trauma and transformation. Reflections and shape-shifters move through them: a child's balloon like a fish with a hook in its mouth, a raven disturbingly alive and dead at the same time. Pain is tracked to a bad tooth, but the source is uncertain, the memory unstable and changeable; the picture splinters into refracted light. Remembering, refusing and reimagining create mirrors, doubles and oppositions that tangle the thread, rejecting...

Is it possible for books to dream? For books to dream within books? Is there a literary subterranea that would facilitate ingress and exit points through these dreams?These are some of the questions posed by David Keenan's masterly fifth novel, Monument Maker, an epic romance of eternal summer and a descent, into history, into the horrors of the past; a novel with a sweep and range that runs from the siege of Khartoum and the conquest of Africa in the 19th century ...

The profound, hugely influential exploration of spiritual growth and transformation, from one of the great Spanish mystics and poets‘Oh living flame of love,how tenderly you scorch me’The poetry of the sixteenth-century Spanish mystic, St John of the Cross, has inspired and consoled for hundreds of years, influencing writers from James Joyce to Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill to T. S. Eliot. This new edition of his essential works, in a sensitive and lu...

Soul in a Shell is a poetry collection that explores what it means to live in an age of noise, numbness, and survival. Written in a minimalist, contemporary style, these poems move through memory, technology, war, disconnection, and the quiet search for belonging.Drawing from military life, modern love, and the emotional weight of screens and systems, the collection follows a single consciousness moving through many forms-at times fragmented, at times tender, alway...