Sleeping Through by Faith Lawrence David Wheatley the imaginary South American nation

the imaginary South American nation of   ‘Oblivia’

"Richard Georges’ poems enters Caribbean literature like the sea rolling up sotto voce on the sand after the last of the small fuss of waves in the shallows

and it closes with O’Malley’s translations of the Irish poet Seán Ó Ríordáin and the Spaniard Federico García Lorca

'Reading these tour-de-force poems is to encounter shadow-wonders and brilliant terrors

she presents the vitality of the natural world with strong lyricism and close observation

Sleeping Through by Faith Lawrence David Wheatley the imaginary South American nationHeavenly lidos, the siren call of the Doctor Who theme tune, the tender melancholy of early motherhood all these feature in a collection of poems which listen for connections: bringing ham sandwiches together with the idea of the afterlife, bees with improbability, and which describe different ways of falling and belonging to the earth.