Rajiv's Starry FeelingsDid you know that constellations are ancient maps that help explorers find their way? Rajiv has feelings for everything. He can feel confident. He can feel happy. He can feel silly. But today, he feels angry and he doesnt know why. With the help of his father, he sets out on a journey to make sense of his feelings. It is a journey that will take him to a park, then up into the branches of a tree, and from there all the way to the stars . . .

Billy Collins

The book includes the Welsh conspiracy trial

a crazed Noah - all are among the many intriguing images to which the poet has responded in The Arches

’ Language is ‘consumed and mated’

The stories and poems in this anthology offer a complexity of voices that reach out to share something of what it means to live today in this contradictory but no less beautiful world

The subjects of the 13 stories on show here range from the domestic – family relationships

cops – and killers

Miriam Van hee

It’s a tragicomedy touching on themes of the limits of knowledge

and he no longer sees his friend who lives next door

To avoid sinking deeper into her depression

Peter Huchel