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A Mind of Winter: Notes on Exile

As every immigrant knows, Rebecca Ruth Gould writes of the poet Ilya Kaminsky (and other exiles), everything you thought you knew, you have to learn all over again; best cultivate a ‘mind of winter’

PUBLISHED ON: 02/08/22

CATEGORY: Essays, Memoir

As every immigrant knows, Rebecca Ruth Gould writes of the poet Ilya Kaminsky (and other exiles), everything you thought you knew, you have to learn a …

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The Sea of Words: Language, Controversy and Subsidy

Duncan Bush

PUBLISHED ON: 01/10/15

CATEGORY: Opinion

Language is the sea in which the world and we ourselves swim. In a fascinating book the Israeli novelist, Amos Oz and his co-author (and daughter) Fan …

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Losing Israel

Amy McCauley admires a highly eloquent and thoughtful meditation on what it means to exist in history and as a product of history within a deeply political and strikingly personal and superior memoir

PUBLISHED ON: 01/08/15

CATEGORY: Reviews

A complex, multi-layered and ambitious book, Losing Israel isn’t your average ‘memoir’ by any stretch of the imagination. In one sense, the book isn’t …

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Judas

Amy McCauley applauds effortless mastery of voice, finely tuned rhythms and a keen sense of place, but asks whether employing a greater range of tone through a wider range of characters’ voices would have pushed this poet beyond his comfort zone

PUBLISHED ON: 01/08/15

CATEGORY: Reviews

The forty-seven poems in Judas are unmistakeably and emphatically the work of Damian Walford Davies. Yes, this statement sounds rather odd – insincere …

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Cosmic Latte

Penny Simpson

PUBLISHED ON: 26/08/13

CATEGORY: Reviews

In her second short fiction collection, Trezise maps contrasting countries and cultures, from a nail parlour in the Valleys to a reform school in Isra …

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