Skinny Dipping in Tiger Country Shane Strachan

Skinny Dipping in Tiger Country Shane StrachanIn her debut collection of poetry, award winning translator and novelist Maithreyi Hughes explores what it means to be vulnerable and curious in the wilderness of civilisation. Politics becomes an instinctive expression of morality; animals are fellow travellers; travel a form of detachment rather than escape. Myth and irony share a lens; belonging folds into longing. This is a fierce, daring introduction to an incisive and eloquent poetic voice,

Views and Distances

was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize

keen to marry and move to the city

Translated by Helen Beer

while others’ is political and wide-ranging

and life on the road with his own jazz band in the post-war decades

and Thomas Kinsella and edited the ground-breaking anthology Irish Poetry After Yeats

Hollywood epics and homegrown classics from Wales’ varied on-screen history

In nine stories spanning from the end of the twentieth century to the end of the world as we know it

She has twice been a prize-winner in the Poetry Now

I heard their voices last night

Carrie Kills A Man* is about growing up in a world that doesn’t want you