Wain: LGBT reimaginings of Scottish folktalesA boy selkie who takes girlness off like a sealskin, an untameable kelpie, the warrior wife of a princess, and a Loch Ness monster who is too busy having fun to worry about words like girl or boy. This is the way the world is with just a bit of Scottish myth and magic thrown in. Wain is a fully illustrated collection of LGBT themed poetry aimed at teens (but suitable for all ages) based on retellings of Scottish folk tales. These poems immerse readers

"The critic and poet Maurice Harmon is one of the most gracious figures on the scene

‘Unsaid’ and ‘Spirals’

The third adventure in this visceral series inspired by the famous Gladiatrix stele found near Halicarnassus in the 19th century

Building on his debut collection Radio Mast Horizon(Shearsman Books

a Carib woman who takes him as

Mícheál Fanning's Homage salutes family

He has also published The Proper Word: Collected Criticism and My Mother-City

and a sequence of computer-generated translations of classic literature

Readers will meet a conformity-obsessed league of bald men

Yousif Qasmiyeh and Bernard O’Donoghue

The stories and poems in this anthology offer a complexity of voices that reach out to share something of what it means to live today in this contradictory but no less beautiful world

have chosen for her