The NegligentsA tragic yet humorous coming of age story, The Negligents plots the flailing friendship between Polina and Grace and their troubled families. The fascinating intricacies of their lives are seen from multiple viewpoints as an interwoven series of scenes unfold, but who is telling the truth and who has secrets yet to reveal? As a former lawyer, author Kate Smith is fascinated by legal constructs, turning them upside down and inside out to shed light on

but who despairs of him as 'sporadic'

tried and sentenced to the appalling world of a Jamaican colonial prison

The collection encompasses poems written in the Shetland dialect

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Lewis’s relationships with Gweno and Freda informed his poetry but also contributed to an inevitable emotional turmoil

Judith Kazantzis proves herself again to be the constant sister of invention and imagination

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Mahmoud Darwish A Poem

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Born into a family of musicians

Others view him as the bridge between pre-war poets like Auden and Yeats to post-war poets such as Hughes and Gunn