Great Fugue Martin Regal

Great Fugue Martin RegalGreat Fugue is Volker Brauns most recent collection, an attempt to understand the strange, silent world of 2020 and the COVID pandemic. Drawing on Dante, Beethoven and Pound, the book examines the catastrophic conflict between Progress and Nature in the Anthropocene Age. A book about the day the world stood still in 2020, when our cities were sedated, the streets fell silent and Nature refused to submit to human ideas of Progress. In the Anthropocene

winner of the 2007 Welsh Book of the Year Award

and Chang'e in turn as she seeks a path through the darkness – and back to the light

the spirit of the place

which he first read at the time of its publication

As the Jamaican-born English poet Edward Lucie-Smith wrote: ‘The "climate of the heart"

Jane Burn’s new poetry collection Be Feared is a captivating reclamation of self

glass houses

and her love of school

many of the stories in A City Burning concern a point of choice and decision

Jigerkhwen (Sheikh Mus Hasan Muhamad)

who is long-listed for the 2008-09 International Prize for Arabic Fiction

Zakaria Mohammed: Poems