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Also present are characters conjured from history – including the ‘four hundred Welsh Women wearing stovepipe hats’ who foiled the last invasion of Britain in 1797 – as well as contemporary encounters with lifeboat crews

That many of the names in this anthology are instantly recognisable to anyone who has even a passing interest in contemporary Irish literature is testament to that

one the greatest Hungarian poets of the century

straya Thomas Lehr forcing a long stay instraya is a book of hauntings, a parliament of ghosts, public and private, the story of a small town Orpheus lost in the brusque shadows of a land down under. It's a treatise on grief, atrocity and human tragedy seen through the eyes of a bewildered mourner in exile, a travelogue of land and soul unravelling the complex carnage of our redacted histories, a song book of love and hate, of sorrow and celebration, of cold despair and stubborn hope.