Purity Mike Lyons

Purity Mike LyonsThe stories in Purity take the reader through cities and suburbs, apartments and streets, to find characters struggling to survive in modern society: a man has an outburst on a bus; a fugitive finds insight in a colour wheel; a social realist kills his friend with a hammer; a thief finds himself in books. And cleaners reluctantly go on cleaning. With gravity and humour, against the backdrop of a violent civilization, people are depicted as fallen, or

“A truly original voice

Eavan Boland also offers an introduction to the work of poet Solmaz Sharif

frequently overlooked or simply left out altogether: the English West Midlands has for decades been diminished in the national conversation - and with it

including Read Me and Laugh (2005) and Space Poems (2006)

locked in and locked out of place and time

Fatma Yousif al-Ali Two short stories

curated by Pandora and translated by UK-based poets Kim Moore

the collection draws to a close with And All Shall Be Well

His many prizes include an Eric Gregory Award

Lorde and Parker shared ideas

But can he create the perfect killing machine

seemingly casually negligent