The InheritanceIts 1986 and 29 year old Marlo OSullivan of London Irish stock has just found out that his sister is his mother. To steady his life, he moves to Glengarriff, to a cottage he has inherited, in the stunning Beara Peninsula. When a neighbour dies unexpectedly, Marlo takes over his minibus service to Cork. There is nothing regular about the regulars on the bus especially Sully, a non verbal 6 year old, who goes nowhere but does the journey back and forth

A child is born and everything is made anew

both of whom are founding contributing editors of Banipal

• Sexual propaganda

it is a world of illumination

the prostitutes are collecting stray dogs

From a sapient pig to human extinction

This collection plunges boldly into an unrelenting quest to make sense of a universe that is both beautiful and troubling

including V

I was so happy

Bruce Cardwell’s latest book is a celebration of the harp in Wales

acutely observed poems that give weight to domestic minutiae and put words to helpless howls into the abyss

his father was conscripted into World War II as a ‘schoolboy soldier’ – an experience he rarely spoke about