Real Estate Alan FelsenthalIn Mark Wards confident second collection, Real Estate, we are mired in uncertainty, surrounded by dreams that are both instructions and warnings. On the page, in life, and in quiet thoughts lurking, this book wonders how to successfully create your days when the ground has given way; when house and home has become surreal, a horror film, a ghost story; when dumb flesh is determined to drag us through lifes little terrors, through grief and loss and
and after-hours bars that seem suspended in time
both along and in spite of the borders that divide them
in Louis MacNeice's phrase
A Pocketful of Chalk bursts with myth and metaphor
literary historian and critic
amidst the gaze of onlookers and tourists
of a city overcome by an epidemic of weeping
Poetry Book Society Recommendation
"This exciting collection of short stories are brimming with suspense
Life comes at you in waves
shortlisted for the CWA Best Thriller Award in 2011
illuminating cycle focusing on a single chicken – learn
