Handling Merce Sarrias "I began writing in my

"I began writing in my early twenties

Nick Mann frames adult hypocrisy for us all to see

This is truly a view of the River Kwai experience for a 21st Century audience

the increasingly significant contribution to American and world literature being made by the growing numbers of Arab American authors meant it was high time to focus on their work

Sylvia Hall shows us the moment when the tormented turns and faces the tormentor

Handling Merce Sarrias "I began writing in myThe poems in Handling, Jack Thackers debut gathering, display an extraordinary gift for describing the sights and sounds of farming life through an exact and tactile evocation of daily work, implements and activities. Childhood memories and seasonal tasks, such as planting vegetables, shearing sheep, and ploughing fields, are handled in a language that is at once strange, familiar, and as rhythmically measured as it is inventive. The descriptive poems