UnspeakableIn January 1953, the town of Laugharne was rocked by a brutal crime. 78 year old Elizabeth Thomas had been viciously attacked at home and died the following day. Local man George Roberts was arrested for her murder. George had been both mute and deaf since birth and couldnt write. Yet he was charged based on an alleged confession made whilst in police custody before being later acquitted at trial. In Unspeakable: Murder in Laugharne Simon Tonkin

will give both Spanish- and English-speaking readers

Irish Examiner

Unusually for a poetry collection

to self-reflections on the poet as remembrancer

joining New Age eccentrics and accidental visionaries on the hunt for crop circles

Knut Odegard

“Look at this

horny but going to seed

Elma Napier’s remarkable memoir chronicles her love affair with the wild Caribbean island of Dominica

This ambitious collection hums with complex feeling

It is now a form that has evolved to mine emotion within a guiding format that

Besharam contains guest poems from Birmingham poets Mina Mekic