Notes from a ShipwreckNotes from a Shipwreck is an odyssey, an exploration of heritage and identity. Combining old Hindu texts with ancient myth and Shakespearean tales, Jessica Mookherjee explores travel and separation, lost people and lost stories. Haunting and atmospheric, wind lashed and melancholy, these poems are also bursting with colour. A collection about journeys and navigation, borders and displacement.

And thus we shall live on the frontline

and the discovery of intimate correspondence with another woman

from immersion in the landscape to the particularity of raising a bat

‘The world

whether it be jazz or any other musical category

James Kirkup La Serment des barbares by Boualem Sansal

who will succeed them as Editor from 2013

Hope and Love is a well-plotted

Her television and film credits ranged from The Sweeney to Derek Jarman’s films

there is one last obligation undertaken for his grandmother: that he will seek out her kinsman

and the symbolic dysmorphia of the British high street

including “Walking Away” and “The House Where I Was Born”