New and Selected SorrowsNew and Selected Sorrows draws on Goran Simis earlier collections, From Sarajevo with Sorrow, Sunrise in the Eyes of the Snowman and Immigrant Blues, together with many new poems published in English for the first time. It is a book about passports and borders, rats and wolves, soldiers and ghosts. It is a record of the realities and the unrealities of life in the Balkans, narrated by an ordinary man with ears of ordinary silk, whose sees the face of

the ascetic gentleness of Paddy Bushe

Mainstream brings thirty authors in from the margins to occupy centre-page

Samuel Shimon: Short story Two Royalists on Quatorze Juillet

translated by Ilmar Lehtpere

The non-transparent water shows time

Patrick Moran was born in Templetuohy

"John McKeown’s dark

In my arms

their “new and energetic voices” having enriched and broken “the mould of Dutch literature

as families and as lovers – and as companions to our own various selves

as you might expect

was published by Penguin