Bycatch Shalash Bonjour Mr Inshaw beautifully illustrates

Bonjour Mr Inshaw beautifully illustrates its ekphrastic encounters and allows us to reflect in turn on this contemporary example of the centuries-old dialogue between the arts of poetry and painting

But the ‘Silent Holocaust’ of Guatemala was extraordinarily brutal even by the standards of Central America

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Always conscious throughout his work of the US immigrant experiences of other peoples as well as his own Irish one

Bycatch Shalash Bonjour Mr Inshaw beautifully illustratesIn Bycatch, a new collection by the Ted Hughes Prize shortlisted poet Caroline Smith, the poems ask where personhood is when memory and language are gone. They capture the faltering years of a life gradually scraped bare by the deep sea trawler of dementia yet find amongst the isolation and sadness, moments also of clarity, epiphany and love. Whilst these poems chart deep waters, they remind us also of the enduring and miraculous bond between those