The Sons of Red LakeAn ailing mother forces Nuannuan to abandon her cherished metropolitan life and return to Chu Wang. Once there, she finds her birthplace fragmented and forgotten by modernity. Despite warnings, she quickly reconnects with Kaitian, a childhood sweetheart. The village is centred around Red Lake, whose misty shores once provided solace to ancient kings and their entourages. The couple unearth forgotten treasures left behind from this royal past and are

and has published numerous English translations of poems and prose by Latvian authors in periodicals and anthologies in the UK and the US

my friends wash me with sap from the kymata creeper

the latter three of whom held the first UK poetry readings of Emirati modernist poetry at the 2010 Ledbury Poetry Festival and at London’s South Bank Centre

Spiced with unusual and original overtones of the grotesque

Greece and Palestine

translated by Jo Shapcott

You won’t find clichés

The play – included in full – was a specially commissioned account of one entrepreneur’s attempt to turn the Wall into the world’s longest theme park

These are poems of uncertainty but also of hope

'There are

the accounts Avatar brings of his previous lives suggest buried traumas of the most worrying kind

exile and longing