Season of the SwampNew Orleans, 1853. A young Zapotec man named Benito Jurez disembarks at a fetid port city at the edge of a swamp along with a small group of fellow political exiles from Mexico. Later, in 1858, he is to become the first indigenous Mexican president, but now he is as anonymous and invisible as any other migrant to the roiling and alluring city. He falls in love with the music and food, but unavoidable, too, is the trade in human beings. A magnificent

the moon and stars

’ But the right feeling is

but contemporary world poetry

Lucia on March 16th 1988

the body a radical means of expression

Praise for Slipping Under Diamond Light:

Since 1989

teasing the reader with faux folk-wisdom and unexpected endings

the complexity of betrayal

Gordon Walmsley's fourth poetry collection

Both her fiction fans and poetry readers will find much to enjoy in The Bramble King

of the imagination can look like