Boulder Teemu Manninen

Boulder Teemu ManninenWorking as a cook on a merchant ship, a woman comes to know and love Samsa, a woman who gives her the nickname Boulder. When Samsa gets a job in Reykjavik and the couple decides to move there together, Samsa decides that she wants to have a child. She is already forty and cant bear to let the opportunity pass her by. Boulder is less enthused, but doesnt know how to say no and so finds herself dragged along on a journey that feels as thankless as it is

including the roles of violence

She turns its innocents and introverts inside-out before us

"—Robert

Baby (Well-Greased Press) which interleaves notebook facsimiles with poems on the practice of notebooking

apart from the great Sudanese author Tayeb Saleh

Full Stops in Winter Branches is alive with poems that capture moments of life's imperfection and moments of rare beauty

It’s a book about displacement and despair

He’ll grow up without milk

The poems respond to place in city and countryside

Alice in Wonderland meets David Brent: exploring the humdrum of 9-5 office work

some threaten our very being

a vanished village holds an ancient curse