Flying School by Robert Saxton James Davies Adrianne Kalfopoulou

Adrianne Kalfopoulou

spacecraft and flooded houses

Alec Finlay

Liz Berry and Hollie McNish to first-time published writers from home and abroad

but of the deeper-running themes

Flying School by Robert Saxton James Davies Adrianne KalfopoulouFlying School is a book of beautifully crafted poems about the contrivances by which we attempt to enrich or repair our lives. One dominant image is flight and, more specifically, parachutes reflecting an aspiration to come to terms with our hardest challenges, including the reality of death. The book ends with a series of heartbreaking elegies for the poets father, unflinching in their grief stricken gaze. In this highly various collection, plain