StrasbourgWith this new work, Alan Jude Moore marks a return to Dublin after the Russian poems of his second collection, Lost Republics. The title, Strasbourg, reflects how that small Alsatian city is now one of our capitals and how, despite its small island status, Ireland's place has always been firmly in Europe and its citizens tied to a greater scheme of things, outside of a narrow nationalism and theocracy that has constrained the country's politics for

He is poetry editor for The Spark Review in Fermanagh and Northern Correspondent for Windows and First Edition

Bassam K Frangieh Embers and Ashes by Hisham Sharabi

Eileen Battersby

to see if he'd wake up

deserves a Welsh Knighthood"

Potter is concerned with sexual responsibility and integrity in relationships

his wife and daughter live in the remote village of his family

+ Rhyme is Female / Tatyana Voltskaya

Elias Khoury: Excerpt from the novel Bab al-Shams

Fats Waller and the legendary Louis Armstrong

His sensitive awareness of the natural world

Oscar Wilde’s The Ballad of Reading Gaol was a success from its first publication