The 1566 Series (Book Three)The fate of the Ming hangs on a knife edge. In the south, defence against relentless pirate raids is escalating into all out war. The beleaguered Chinese forces must rally for a desperate last stand fought across salt and sand. Nearby, fearless magistrate Hai Rui is tasked with investigating a major corruption scandal. In Beijing, a chance to trump the embezzling viper Yan Song and his influential clan presents itself. There to snatch it is the Crown

a flurry of response that is a ‘cosmos or order or harmony in a bag full of hard to categorize leaves’

including Horses of God

the poet Denise Abercrombie

If the history of civilisation has been a journey away from our rubbish

his elegy for John Tripp which also traces the changing face of society in Wales

the last of which is Muntasaf al-Layl / Midnight

“To read Walter Gregory’s memoir is to breathe again the heady air of myth and belief

’ In the wake of her parents’ divorce

in the mind

Jenkins has appeared at the Hay and Aldeburgh festivals

Poets born in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland

Sven Smedberg