SeahousesIn his first collection of poetry, Richard Barnett turns a precise gaze and a musical sensibility on the worlds we inherit and the worlds we make for ourselves. In the award winning title sequence, the sea sifts and rolls through the dreams of an old man asleep in a deckchair, conjuring a vision of Englands history and our human crossings. Seahouses is a distinctively English work of low modernism, cranky, eloquent, broken hearted. It is a book for

There is another commandment that it is the role of the husband to ensure that the woman is sexually satisfied

and a must-buy for existing fans curious as to which poems 'made the cut'

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Saad Mohammed Raheem

translated by Marilyn Hacker

Sandrine Ribes and Judith Willis (freelance translator of many Spanish books in the UK)

The fact that one of our own can tell such stories in a way that is so powerful and satisfying is something to be proud of

Her work has been translated into twelve languages

Turkey and Palestine

cultural production and comsumption in 50s America (Continuum)

and is director of Doire Press

his first novel