The Examined LifeA quite marvellous workan Odyssey, a Ulysses shaken up in the snow dome of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. From the foreword by STEPHEN FRY James Harpur entered a boys boarding school in the 1970s and survived to tell the tale. His sequence of poems is a searingly honest and compelling account of his five year journey, from leaving home for the first time and sleeping in a dormitory in which enemies appear like shadows, to his sadness at his

‘Bleak Place’

Francis Jones on Jan Twardowski (translated by Sarah Lawson and Malgorzata Koraszweska) and A Fine Line: New Poetry from Central and Eastern Europe

to see what’s there

inclusively

where is home and who gets to decide a home’s inhabitants

Josephine Balmer: Further Books Received

will demonstrate an obvious fact: on Planet Earth we sink or swim together

As a novel about life and writing

as a teacher

Always moving

poetry and travel

Ruth Fainlight - who offers us new translations of the important Mexican poet Victor Manuel Mendiola