The Shipwrecked HouseReader's nomination for Guardian First Book Award 2013 Anchors, shipwrecks, whales and islands abound in this first collection by young Anglo Breton poet Claire Trvien. Trviens is a surreal vision, steeped in myth and music, in which everything is alive and like the sea itself constantly shifting form. Fishermen become owls; a woman turns into a snake, while another gives birth to a tree; a glow worm might become a wasp or a toy on standby. Struck

Shifts (1997)

TAYEB SALIH (1929–2009)

That work was dramatised by the award-winning BBC Radio Four producer Melanie Harris

it also includes a number of coming-of-age poems

Regina Derieva

In the late 1990s

Kestutis Navakas

but recognising that

hallucination

the launch of Arabia Books

and poems from upcoming British-Lebanese poet Omar Sabbagh

Marina Kudimova