The Sacred ClanWu Township is hollowing out. Our most capable sons and daughters have long since uprooted from their birthplace on the central plains to fuel Chinas economic miracle. The ancient trees now sit in the shade of a modern aqueduct, funnelling even our precious water to the metropolises beyond. From the marketplace where gossip is traded to the long abandoned execution grounds, ordinary life carries on. For we who remain, feuds between neighbours compound

Deserved winner of multiple awards upon its Catalan and Spanish publication

Bilal Tanweer

heritage and baggage

who plays trumpet with his Columbus Jazz Orchestra

2009) and Noorkuuhommik – New Moon Morning (selected poems

a touch of color here

Inua Ellams was poet in residence at the Poetry Library at the Southbank Centre in London

Plastiglomerate explores the impact of mankind on the environment

travelling the world

in his striking and highly effective poems unites realism and surrealism with concern and pity for human beings

Shortlisted for the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize 2012

Pliny the Younger only sees fireflies