Animal Magic: Poems on a Disappearing WorldA beetle disguised as a water drop? A cat that lives in the desert and never drinks? A frog poisonous enough to kill just by touching it? This beautiful book all about the animal kingdom features playful and engaging poems on more than 40 animals, birds and insects, including some of the world's most endangered species. You'll find everything from the panda to the bumble bee, from the cave racer snake to the Madagascan robber moth, even something

Jean Thurston

Dannie Abse's Welsh and Jewish backgrounds have been essential to his writings

Sister Viv

superb” — European Journal of American Culture

swerve and dawdle

NeWest Press

but one which involved revisiting his previous Nottingham life

Abdu Khal: Establishing an Aesthetic

salting and curing small game

Author Digby Fairweather is a jazz cornettist

don’t weep’

and put tea and biscuits onto her bedspread