Are You Ready? Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Are You Ready? Samuel Taylor Coleridge"The Ireland of 2009 has almost as many 'serious' poets as it does blocks of unsold apartments. What I love about John Corless's poetry is that instead of pretending to sit po faced on the summit of Mount Parnassus, it goes absolutely in the opposite direction. Like Swift, Paul Durcan and Rita Ann Higgins before him, Corless takes the low road and shines the telltale torchlight of his killer wit into all the most embarrassing areas of contemporary

and was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation

messily bound together in the unique

Second Causes

"At his best Searle's compassion

Guy Mannes-Abbott has written about writers and thinkers from across the world for The Independent

translucent images” which give us “fresh access to reality”

The translators in Banipal 42 from Arabic are:

in the wash-rooms and kitchens

and also behind the lines

as a participant at finance meetings

So he awoke

The Summer issue of Banipal offers readers a kaleidoscope of works that once dipped into will be hard to put down