The Tattoo CollectorI moved to a country called writing declares Tim Tim Cheng in this striking debut collection. The Tattoo Collector explores family history, displacement, politics, protest, and, as it moves between East and West, the uses of language to illustrate and interrogate what lies in between. As these poems range from Hong Kong, Scotland, and London, they unravel the relationship between the body, ecology and class with precise and haunting tenderness. Here,

the ascetic gentleness of Paddy Bushe

A young woman with anorexia withdraws to a seaside cottage to discover her new shape

anthologies of the poetry that arose from the Holocaust

vital or aggrieved

In order to reflect the ranging topics and issues discussed in the podcast

to ask what people might become if they chose to flee

Samuel Shimon – The Assyrian Bear

called Hopelessness and published by the 87 Press

Three Russian Poets

Her first book of poems in German

female narrative and confidently fits colours and stories into new bodies

Her short fiction features in the widely acclaimed Dalkey Archive Press collection