The Minnow Would Be LostStarting on Gilligan's island, with Aristotle clapping the 'fearless crew' 'in front of a live studio audience and from deep within it', Nora Chassler's book length poem The Minnow Would Be Lost is a deeply imaginative, lyrical and personal journey through the lives of the author (inner, outer and otherwise), from Chicago to New York City, to Edinburgh, Prague, Moscow and beyond, to the edges of reality and the limits of the human experience. Epic in

Winner of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize 2015

Gerard made his mark in particular in theatre (as an actor and at The Central School) and in performances with The Barrow Poets and at the Royal Festival Hall

waiting to teach her bullying

bees in Rhode Island

And when he discovers he has a half-sister no one has told him about

nuanced book about masculinity

The poems in Heavenly Life were selected by the poet from his collections and from works written as poet laureate

Benno Barnard

THE INTERVIEW WITH AN EDITOR is with Stefan Weidner of the Goethe Institute’s Fikrun wa Fann magazine

Ivan Teofilov

his poems for grown-ups are less well known

It is also a portrait of society's lack of compassion for those who suffer from mental health issues