Cherry Blossom at Nightbreak Allison McVetyCherry Blossom at Nightbreak by Rishi Dastidar blooms with poems determined to do the generous work of love and hope using the power of language to make change, express desire, and imagine the world as we'd like it to be. Dastidar's poems, with their deft skill in moving from the surreal to the profound, are a perfect burst of joy in challenging times, effervescent and seriously playful, romancing cityscapes and bursting with wit.
a paean to the English landscape
The collection encompasses poems written in the Shetland dialect
admired their magnificent beauty and woven them into our spiritual lives
daily observations and lifelong preoccupations – pitted prunes
England and Ireland
and there are the inventive poems of the dramatist drawn to create the stories of a rich variety of characters
recycle and are an important food source for many animals – they're tiny but mighty superheroes of the animal kingdom
and Dreams of Water by Nada Awar Jarrar
A beetle disguised as a water-drop
But their holiday is cut short when forces unknown destroy the robot convoy they were meant to be guarding
Levin's poetic voice – mordant
writing a play about computer dating
