Lives of the DeadHanoch Levins poetry stands alone as a single volume in his collected works, which run to fifteen volumes of drama and prose. Levin's poetic voice mordant, witty, irreverent, erotic and highly satirical, yet also whimsical and delicate is arresting, distinctive and unusual. When this volume was published in Israel, it proved to be enormously popular and went through three editions in its first year and has continued to be reprinted since. This

a profound interest in the wars of the last century

smell the smoke

So wrote the Adoption Society to the woman who became Kate Foley’s adoptive mother

Rilke and Yeats

ominous communication about the unsheltering of Trinidad

Combining faithful translation with innovative re-workings and poems from alternative viewpoints

He lives in Paris

before this criminal was uniquely transformed into a folk hero in popular theatre

duppies and spiritual presences that connect them across time and place

Kamal embarks on a Noah’s ark journey

Christopher Meredith is characteristically thought-provoking – sometimes challenging – about what it is to live

a horse galloping backwards