Family Business DJ Connell

Family Business DJ ConnellPeter J. Conradis memoir Family Business includes a cast of characters ranging from his European Jewish forebears who came to Britain in the Victorian era to influential novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch, whose biography Conradi himself wrote. The arc of Conradis story travels, unusually, from the relative integration of his ancestors to his rebellion against this and his long association with Murdoch, another outsider in English society. Against

when he reaches his fiftieth birthday

And there are poets coming out of a more performance-oriented stream such as Jacob Sam-La Rose

where the small and the local are revealed to be universal

The latest issue of Modern Poetry in Translation takes as its theme the so-called ‘minority’ languages and cultures of our modern

Unsparing but unwaveringly kind

He escapes from drug dens

The mother

A former Sunday League footballer and secondary school headteacher

The collection includes accounts of his Jewish Communist family's conflicts with authority

illuminating their characters and qualities

to lyricise the enduring

” – Daljit Nagra