The Europeans maggie harris It is beautifully written and

It is beautifully written and perfectly balanced in revealing some of the horrors that went on there during the period of enslavement without overwhelming the reader and putting them off

Spake is a love letter to the West Midlands voice and a challenge to the preconceptions and prejudices that abound about dialect and non-standard English

the Orbita poets draw on European

Tomas Venclova

They discuss issues of expectation and surprise

The Europeans maggie harris It is beautifully written andDavid Clarke, winner of the Michael Marks Poetry Award 2013, returns with his second collection, The Europeans. Simultaneously close to home and looking outward beyond these shores, these wry and perceptive poems revel with form and encompass journeys, ideas of nationhood and national identity, and the optimism of a time when Europe and the UK enjoyed a quite different entente cordiale. They are a warning against nostalgia, a lucid and prescient