The Mandate of Heaven PB/HB:Paperback

The Mandate of Heaven PB/HB:PaperbackHou ming, city of ghosts, central China, 1304 . . . In a vast graveyard created by Mongol slaughter, three children meet amidst the decaying ruins and forge a friendship that will determine their destinies. As the years pass they separate, finding different paths in life. Yun Shu, cruelly rejected by her father for refusing to bind her feet, seeks solace as a Daoist nun. Hsiung, enslaved by the Mongols when just a boy, becomes a ruthless rebel warlord

Mariam al-Saedi – Two short stories

Poetry in Translation

Nikos Gatsos

and travelling to other worlds in the only possible way

Anna Lewis

The collection stretches

Fortunes of War

if it does

the early shaper of Black Studies in the United States

including the Milton Dorfman Prize in Poetry and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts

This tri-lingual approach is an attempt to represent the cultural and linguistic concerns which both Ireland and Galicia have shared historically

"This is poetry of absolute physical celebration and relentless observation