Small Moon Curve Stephanie Norgate

Small Moon Curve Stephanie NorgateSmall Moon Curve by Roz Goddard is an intimate poetry memoir exploring what it means to ease open to the restorative powers of love, faith and beauty following diagnosis and treatment for breast cancer. In this compelling, tender and deeply moving testimony, the narrator discovers a surprising and powerful affinity with Tess of the DUrbervilles as spiritual companion and guide through the challenging currents of illness, trauma and transformation.

a cultural exploration in a ‘Cities of the Imagination’ series

After giving birth

Illustrated with a quirky mix of artistic styles

To wake from the simulation that seems to equate its power with surcease

In between are narratives

where the editor of the journal Hinterland receives his writing

Emily Berry

conversational tone

Ibrahim Abdel Meguid – How clocks the watches stopped or Why we heard only the verses of hell in the large tent – An excerpt from a novel

Peter Clark on Arab writers who write in English

his poems for grown-ups are less well known

poetic language and engaging narrative of family