Closed Gates or Open Arms? – The Verve Anthology of Community PoemsThis book contains the winners and commended poems from the Verve Festival 2019 Community Themed Poetry Competition judged by Joelle Taylor. They are the best of a wonderful bunch of poems that we received from you from all over the UK, Europe and beyond from our own growing and incredible community of poets. In a strange way, as Joelle intimates in her introduction on the next pages, your poems, whether selected or otherwise, and you, are a community

Meehan's celebration of the power of dream and of song is neither escape nor hermetic retreat

Judith Kazantzis

She has also had much competition success

Hassouna Mosbahi – Excerpt from the novel A Tunisian Tale

Poetry Ireland Review: The Rising Generation features poems and prose from Ireland’s new generation of poets

She has written plays for stage

of this selflessly generous book

sends the Sultan into a frenzied desire to track it down

All this and more in the groundbreaking magazine dedicated to poetry in translation: for the best in world poetry read MPT

Takeo starts to see things he could never have seen before

a few quick strokes

a novel by the Tunisian journalist Safi Said