PassportExploring place and displacement, boundaries and borders, Passport is the second collection by Richie McCaffery, and follows his acclaimed debut Cairn (Nine Arches Press, 2014). In moving to the Belgian city of Ghent, McCaffery finds What I see and what happens are two different countries. In a place of dualities and unrealities, the poems find the usual definitions themselves becoming unstable; the old currency that is no longer valid, the postcards

Can you choose where you call home

But this bag did not contain photographic equipment

the body count rises and the secrets of the portrait gradually unfold

completing an MA in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths

Chrissy Banks

Patricia Powell’s new novel seamlessly combines an intense psychological realism with magical elements that are no surprise to her characters

Donald Gardner

and are made nervous by hearing of an unknown land

which promises to solve all of your life’s problems

The only way he can get people to listen is to pretend he’s not saying what he is saying

past and future

This is a deeply moving