ClosureThe standout feature of Closure is its richness of styles, forms, themes, and ways of telling that display a keen awareness of the contemporary short story while exploiting the suppleness of the form to serve the imaginative needs of the writer. The richness is also in the tremendous array of moods and levels of intensity of these stories. Raw realism gives way to pure lyricism; the fanciful rubs shoulders with the speculative. There is trauma and

boats and friendship

the Dime (2005) and The Lakes of Coma (2003)

in its swaddling clothes

Future Blues is both a progression from and a break with Michael S

published by Salmon Poetry in 2005

an imprint of Peepal Tree

Salima Saleh: Short stories The Wheat Watchmen and The Enemy

Fiona Williams

Peter Stead has written an invaluable introduction to Dennis Potter's work

” — Mahmoud Darwish

poems by Girgis Shukry

as vital contraband