Maps Cesare Pavese

Maps Cesare PaveseThe first of a series of annual themed compendiums by writers associated with or friends of Five Leaves. A quirky compendium of essays on maps, places and people, many by leading writers including Iain Sinclair and The Guardian's David McKie and Chris Arnot as well as writers from the London Review of Books, academic journals, a journalist from the BBC World Service and several biographers. Iain Sinclair Walking Through Liverpool Chris Arnot Lost

Two years subscription to The North magazine

The long-awaited re-release of Jessie Lendennie's prose poem Daughter

strings of dried figs and green tomatoes

scattering petals

He creates telling imagery and narrative

even in the face of increasing blindness

where fantasy is at play and collection is coloured by a deep rooted spirituality and a longing for change in an ageing Christianity

Since then

he has set several of his poems to music

He has also written a book of short stories

race and nation

saints and sinners