Imagined SonsIn Imagined Sons Carrie Etter reflects on the experience of a birthmother who gave up her son when she was seventeen. In a series of haunting, psalm like prose poems of enormous courage and insight, she describes possible encounters with this son now in his late teens, expressing how sometimes the melancholy arrives before the remembering. The series of Birthmothers Catechisms return to repeated, harrowing questions that yield different answers at

the Midway Atoll

Samir Naqqash (1938–2004)

one that should please her as much as it should touch her readers

Danuta Reah – Forensic Linguistics

They can row out of hell')

almost everything

she now writes poetry and plays

'If someone knocks on your door

Includes poems by Fergus Allen

Photos from the launch of ‘Frontiers’

These poems are the real thing: serious about being human and being at home in the world

Sarah Hesketh