The MiddlemanThe poems in The Middleman refuse to take sides, or rather, they insist on taking all sides. Writing from the United States with a Canadian background and Irish ancestry, Cavanagh straddles a number of borders. With deft language and a compassionate voice, his poems explore complex territories of love, family, work, and nationality through the lens of personal history. They seek lost connections from a Montreal childhood, a funeral procession in Cork,

Anghelos Sikelianos

often fragile

CJ Sage works her words with a zesty ease

The author developed a children’s theatre group in the camp

a book about enthusiasm and illusion

Fishman is a visiting professor at Queen Mary College

includes short stories set in the years of his growing up in Ireland

He always finds the sublime in the everyday and the miracle in the mundane

"Brilliantly chronicled" AJP Taylor

currently Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Ain Shams University

(Archie) Markham died unexpectedly in Paris on 23rd March

These brief prose-pieces have a style and an attraction all of their own