If You Want Thunder Karen McNeil ‘As my father can no

‘As my father can no longer cross the bridge into my world

Pyramid Texts by Gamal al-Ghitani translated by Humphrey Davies

of this first book-length anthology of work by the Dominican Republic's internationally acclaimed and locally celebrated National Poet is an event—long anticipated

Paul Durcan

If You Want Thunder Karen McNeil ‘As my father can noRuth Valentine's tenth collection encompasses the tragedies of the public world civil wars in Syria and Sudan, knife crime in North London, the Iraq Iran war and our private griefs. At the heart of the book is an extraordinary alphabetical sequence about the Grenfell Tower dead and the society that allowed them to die. Its a book about the morality of politics and the mortality of us all, a study in remembrance and forgetting, about the indifferent