Behind the Tree Backs David Dabydeen

Behind the Tree Backs David DabydeenBehind the Tree Backs investigates a poetics of remembrance through senses that hover just below and just above the skin. The text excavates war and displacement through a constellation of animate memories carved out of deep pleasure as well as brutality, the ancient and the institutional, the everyday and the geopolitical. The book insists on a poetics that recall through vibrating auratic fields, violence, love, and sexuality; these sensations

yet also whimsical and delicate – is arresting

Gaber Asfour

Muhammad Khudayyir and Shahla Ujayli

The empathy of the reader cannot be understated

showcasing their beautiful and unusual literary stylings to audiences closer to home

they’ll come later

and embark on voyages of self-discovery

and till now it’s hard to see an end to it

including nine poetry collections

Carole Bromley’s fourth collection brings together poems about York and Yorkshire

translated by Mike Stocks

range and linguistic panache