Barearse BoyJon Taits family have lived in the hills of the Anglo Scottish borders for at least six hundred years. He is a direct descendent of a notorious seventeenth century reiver family who lived in Barearse near Yetholm in Scotland, rustling cattle, burning farms and putting their neighbours to the sword. In this modern take on Scotts Border Minstrelsy, Tait follows the reiver people as they are forced from their rural heartlands into the industrial and post

Dear World and Everyone in It: New Poetry in the UK (Bloodaxe

rationalistic materialism of his science teacher

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He was also a talented artist and a warm-hearted supporter of the local community

"At his best Searle's compassion

I couldn't put it down and read it in two sessions

a constant that serves as a reliable touchstone for memory

Sinan Anton

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political anger infused into his writings to provide most of the poems with energy and drive

Malika Moustadraf (1963–2006) A short story A Mere Difference

Her research interests are in contemporary Spanish and Catalan drama