The Taiga SyndromeA fairy tale run amok, The Taiga Syndrome follows an unnamed Ex Detective as she searches for a couple that has fled to the far reaches of the Earth. A betrayed husband is convinced by a brief telegram that his second ex wife wants him to track her down that she wants to be found. He hires the Ex Detective, who sets out with a translator into a snowy, hostile forest where strange things happen and translation serves to betray both sense and the

Here is sheer madcap ingenuity and also impressive breadth

People begin to dream the lovers they will never have

Why Poetry

but the world intrudes

the century’s most dazzling man of letters was sentenced to two years with hard labour for ‘acts of gross indecency with another male person

" — Bernard O’Donoghue

His 2009 verse documentary for Channel 4

Patrick Hicks explores the thorny connections between home and away

Olivia McCannon

Whether or not these stories bear any relation to life as it is lived in Endland (sic) is not my problem and good riddance to all those what prefer to read about truly good

she heads south for LA

Salah el-Moncef: Al Dente Excerpt from a novel in progress