Here’s Looking at You KidThese requested poems have been brought together for Heres Looking at You Kid, the long awaited follow up to Helens much loved first volume The Ruby Slippers. Readers will discover the secrets of hospital lingo, find out why dogs are so especially kind, learn how to handle mothers who are at that difficult age between 81 and 81 and a half, and the lurid details of what they found in the poets stomach. The collection also features the return of Helens

She was the co-founder of the Dominica Labour Party and served as a minister in the short-lived West Indies Federation (1958-62)

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between Irish parents and their German grandchildren

the fear of words

Michael Foley

2010) and the Best Irish Poetry in English (Southword

Her vision is clear and bright

Judith Kazantzis reviews Saraya

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Dad’s a waster

Taher Wattar: Excerpt from the novel The Earthquake

For Elly and Martin it is the chance to forget their hasty exit from Paradise following classroom scandal