ALL Michael Longley And most importantly issue 52

And most importantly issue 52 has 92 poets chosen by our two guest editors -- established and new to print and inbetween

“Excellent… Locke is an accomplished craftsman

all translated from Arabic

Yet this complicated man continued to feel alienated from literary London by his lowly background

in the transience of cities

ALL Michael Longley And most importantly issue 52In Robert Powells wonderful new collection we have poems of wisdom and insight, poems which combine lambent descriptions of time and place, of a natural and a spiritual world, all haunted by a younger self. Powells ability to understand and convey the messiness, tragedies and beauties of life, demonstrate what a very fine poet he is. Full of startling observations, these are the thoughts and perceptions of a mature writer, gloriously mining free verse