Root: New Stories by North-East Writers Kareem Abed

Root: New Stories by North-East Writers Kareem AbedRoot is a collection of short stories which re affirm the North Easts status as a vibrant area for new writing. The subjects of the 13 stories on show here range from the domestic family relationships, gardening, bullying, adoption and loss to the plain bizarre: a circus bearded lady, a woman who morphs into Elvis, and an insight into what God wears to work. The writers featured in Root include Avril Joy, Fiona Cooper, Amanda Baker and Rob Walton.

Some states encourage their poets

your brother is burning

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His debut collection is gritty and irreverent

so it wasn’t surprising to see the literati turn out in force for his 80th-birthday celebration in Dublin

This is not a naive nostalgic sojourn through rural Connaught but an uncompromising white knuckle ride through sometimes dark and menacing places where sacred cows are put through their paces before being loaded up in a trailer and driven unceremoniously out to grass

Since then

Clem Seecharan was born in Guyana

The sequences in the book are accumulations of what it is to be human

Destiny in My Hands

such as self-deprecating irony and stylistic aplomb

Margaret Obank