Isolario/IslariumThis dual Spanish English collection of poems by a Venezuelan poet focuses on the island nature of his countrys Caribbean coast. Its rich observation of physical island scapes is realised in imagery that strikes both with its freshness and rightness, and its speculative concern with the nature of islands in the Western imagination challenges us to new points of view. Robin Myers translation is both subtle and beautiful.

potent verses

Grounded in the particularities of location

Juan Gelman

The author asks us to look at our brains (and implicitly ourselves and our lives

and now the opportunity might finally be within her grasp

His poems and prose have appeared in over 100 publications around the world

Roopnaraine’s monograph will be of major interest not only to those concerned with Caribbean art

better stories that we can write

"enabling us to discover the poetics of the real world"

” wrote the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius

Wang Wei has always chosen his words carefully

but one which draws attention to the significance of Greaves’ practice in bringing together elements from visual resources that range across traditional African and Amerindian art and contemporary European surrealism