AuscultationIlse Pedler is a prize winning poet who writes from the unique perspective of a practicing veterinary surgeon. Her title: Auscultation: means listening and specifically, in medicine, listening to sounds that come from the bodys internal organs. If listening is a central theme of this collection; it is also about being heard. This is a voice that has longed to be understood and heard from the depths of a difficult childhood and the emotions later

Williams is Guyanese and lives in New York

” – Menna Elfyn

unique voice

John Peate

An unsparing evocation of a Catholic childhood in a country town in the late 1940s

a meditation on HIV and AIDS in Jamaica commissioned by the Pulitzer Centre

vague green as it fluffs and swirls coarse sand

and takes in the maps

It is of course not possible to cover the

while undoubtedly secure

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The author of acclaimed biographies of Matthew Arnold