All The Colours You Cannot NameIt is 1666 and the bubonic plague still haunts London. Just outside the old Roman walls, where they have lived for six good years, printers James and Ellie White have managed to escape its ravages. The city too has survived, but now sits in a cloud of wounds. After over a year, something like everyday life has been restored, and the preacher Solomon Eagle wants a book printed, in which he moralises on the meanings of the plague and the judgements of

for nearly 100 years

from the joy that permeates this account of a life spent making botanical art

With contributions by Rojbîn Arjen

or the "lucid silence" envisioned by Thomas Merton

The Tethers

"Norah manages - perhaps because this book distils a lifetime of writing - to bring before us the tragedy of the human condition

But we begin with tributes to the great writer Tayeb Salih

For several of these well-known Galician poets

a woman at the end of her tether

Lillie and Teddy spend their time drinking and smoking

and the ways we seek out distraction from difficult truths

entertaining and truly diverse snapshot of the best new poetry from London