Hardly WarHardly War, Don Mee Choi's UK debut, defies categorisation. Using artefacts from Choi's father, a professional photographer during the Korean and Vietnam wars, she combines memoir, image, and opera to explore her paternal relationship and heritage. Here poetry and geopolitics are inseparable twin sisters, conjoined to the belly of a warring empire. Chois use of hybrid forms poetry, memoir, opera libretto, images and artefacts from her fathers career

and become the kind of men who might be able to sustain a loving relationship

with secret societies

how to choose titles for your poems and the art of long sequences

in the cities she lives in

won an Irish Film & Television Award for Best Actor

The featured poets twist traditional stories

based loosely on the life of Kate O'Brien

In 2009 she compiled and edited Poetry: Reading it

Clem Seecharan was born in Guyana

His books were banned until 1954

Dhaen Shahine – Selected Poems

people are depicted as fallen