After Poems, PsalmsIn his fifth collection with Peepal Tree Press, After Poems, Psalms, John Robert Lee achieves a sense of spirit, insight and empathy with these celebratory and contemplative poems. In the way that we might look to the psalms for strength and solace, After Poems, Psalms should be received as a gift, a balm and a cause for celebration. Here is a companion to assist spirit wrestlers and lovers of poetry in their quest to identify the numinous in both the

but who despairs of him as 'sporadic'

• Developing intercultural dialogue is Banipal’s mission and Banipal 41 starts a new regular Guest Literature feature

fragile world

labyrinthitis

When he involves his oldest friend

these poems trace a search for identity and for the meaning of family which everyone can relate to

2 Korean poets

concise and penetrating

delighted readers of all ages upon its publication in November 2011

who necked bullets like toddies

Jon Tait’s family have lived in the hills of the Anglo-Scottish borders for at least six hundred years

Something changes during that unprecedented swim