The Hand of the HandThe Hand of the Hand brings us to a future or an alternate universe in which earth, animal, and human intertwinewhere stomachs have meadows, milk pours itself over trees, and flies wash the dead. Vazquez pulls deceptively simple, bare language into puzzling formations, creating an ambient unease. By turns lyrical and absurd, The Hand of the Hand explores the mystery and strangeness of what it means to be both speech and body, tongue and dirt.

Khan was one of her students

oblivious to the monumental tragedy that is about to hit her family

With an appendix of valuable documents setting out a variety of Guyanese approaches to the issue of power-sharing

falling into heavy

these poems are compelling

the future for both of them looks unpromising

Fuad Rifqa: Poems

habitations

From the intimately personal – the choices that lead us towards

Attention Seekers is a tour-de-force of dark humour and social commentary

• 'Poets I Go Back To': writers reveal which poets from the past have most influenced them

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