HomageMchel Fanning's Homage salutes family, friends, and special places of Ireland (Inishfallen, The Skelligs, Nollaig i gCnoc Mellary and Gallaras), but his tributes are not merely local. They extend to the Middle and Far East, and include biblical, mythical and historical figures such as Abraham, King David, Solomon, Achilles, Odysseus, Paris, Charles Darwin, Virginia Woolf and Daniel O'Connell. Fanning's love of philosophy is manifest in his homage to

his memorable

This ecological and sceptical outlook is aligned with a deep affinity with

Bob Crosby

four tales by Mustafa Zikri

Olga Berggolts

Lutfiya Dulaimi – A Thousand and One Nights and The Fruits of the Earth

Her work — and that of the illustrator Hilda Miller — lives on in fairy sites all over the internet

Nutter's first collection

The Last Migration

Gods of Babel is her first collection of poetry in English

Marie Luise Kaschnitz

and the things we fill them with