ConnectomicsConnectomics is a book of poems that will expand your mind. It does exactly what the title says: it makes connections between languages, between cultures and between human beings and our brains, that make it possible for us to be, to know, and to make connections. As Professor Raymond Tallis says in his foreword, The wonderfully articulated, poised, often epigrammatic poems, picking up glints from the cutting edge of neuroscience, are so beguiling.

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Fire and Ice: the world turned upside down (extract)

Susan Millar DuMars was born in Philadelphia in 1966

he is held hostage by a deluded gunman who thinks he is an escaped PoW from WWII and that Bradley is a member of the Hitler Youth

is also available from Dedalus Press (2008)

almost painful precision

You don’t even look at their face

Not only a very promising

the book takes in a wide range of tones

Lubonja was sentenced to seven years imprisonment for "agitation and propaganda" after police found his diaries

Faina Grimberg

County Tipperary