Looting Hummingbirds John Harvey December 2009 (photo: © Thomas

December 2009 (photo: © Thomas Rösch)

Thirty six poets who have published a first collection or pamphlet in the past five years will be represented by two poems each and by an essay that responds to an original and probing questionnaire about their poetic practice and values

and later by Andrew’s daughter Sophie

Ticker-tape is a maximalist take on 21st century living

Combining poetic and philosophical insight with forensic investigation

Looting Hummingbirds John Harvey December 2009 (photo: © ThomasIn the first quarter of the 20th century, Daniel Thaly of Dominica, then a British Caribbean colony, was one of Frances most celebrated poets. He was educated in Martinique and then at medical school in France before returning to Dominica. His illustrious reputation crumbled when radicals in theemerging anti colonial Negritude movement criticised his work. From then on he wrote little. Here for the first time in English (and French) we can read a