Where Shadow FallsThe language and structure of the poems allows readers to create their own interpretations of events and relationships. Never didactic and often leavened with wit, the poems occupy the liminal space between whats present and what lies beyond. Nevertheless, they are attentive in their range to such present day realities as prostitution, prison and political deception. Forgiveness, they discover, may be found in time or place but we can only be certain

Wild Woman is an anti-love story

loss and misspent language that is contemporary Dublin

Sixty per cent of the Empire’s tea is grown on one world – Urn

The poems explore cycles of repetition

An anthology of instructional poems by modern poets dispensing advice on love

Attempting to lie low after a fateful night back home

Hassan Ben Othman: Excerpt from the novel Promosport

It shamelessly flirts with the absurdities of life familiar to us all

This has less to do with birds and saints’ bones than with real bloodshed

was published in March 2008

In the title story

The world we say we live in is put under pressure here in poems that manage to be both icily detached and achingly human… This is poetry that is strong