Several Forms of Speech A. F. Harrold

Several Forms of Speech A. F. HarroldSeveral Forms of Speech: New, Early, Escaped and Last Poems brings together poems written by the distinguished poet Arnold Rattenbury over a sixty year period. The earliest was published on the eve of D Day; the last was written as part of the campaign to save the Community Hospital in Blaenau Ffestiniog in North Wales, where Rattenbury lived. These poems are written in many different voices public and private, personal and political, lyrical and

Radwa Ashour was awarded the Constantine Cavafy International Prize for Literature

From plunging cat burglars

with Bob Bagg

I was induced to write unambitious critical pieces in German

Christi Merrill

as well as Ellington

The results were impressive: First World War documents and diaries relating to 1/1st regiment of the Royal Gloucester Hussars

His poetry appears in numerous anthologies

a meditation on HIV and AIDS in Jamaica commissioned by the Pulitzer Centre

incorporates passages from Boccaccio's introductory description and imagines how the whole collection might have started

Tony Curtis is Professor of Poetry at the University of Glamorgan where he directs an MPhil in Writing

The Pushkin sonnet: easy to read and insanely difficult to write