The DollsStories from a world both fantastically strange and gruellingly familiar where flight, ruin, prejudice, and disinformation soar in an irresistible, susurrant fugue of human longing In the four stories that make up The Dolls, characters are plagued by unexplained illnesses, oblique, human made disasters and environmental losses. A big sister descends into the family basement. Another sister refuses her younger brother. A third sister with memory loss

Linton Kwesi Johnson and Kwame Dawes indicate some of these

In more recent times one need go no further than Tolstoy to find an author turning against his own earlier writings

not nostalgic

While Boccaccio does not go so far as directly to question the social or religious fabric of medieval society

His poetry has appeared in Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century (Bloodaxe

” But the little boy knows that painting his nails makes his hands look beautiful

Iolo Morganwg had many faces: stonemason

the friendlier of the river’s banks

while other poems speak to the mother for whose sake she endured

Denise Riley and the 2016 Forward Prize winner Vahni Capildeo

Iquela and Paloma

Gatot who never finishes his sentences