Monsoon Diary by Joseph Woods Penguin Putnam giving biographical and historical context

giving biographical and historical context and locating and ranking him amongst the other soldier poets of World War One: Sassoon

The written word winds through their varying accents and rhythms

Rosy Carrick’s new bi-lingual edition of the poem firmly re-establishes Mayakovsky’s reputation as one the most important political poets of the twentieth century

making the case for the women-only anthology with characteristic wit and flair

These are psychological explorations of relationships and power struggles that take risks

Monsoon Diary by Joseph Woods Penguin Putnam giving biographical and historical contextBetween the birth of the poets daughter and the deaths of his parents, the poems in Monsoon Diary attempt to make sense of the world, from a mid life flight from home en famille to new perspectives on both the past and the future. Monsoon Diary strikes an often elegiac tone, betraying a growing awareness of mortality and the many losses that come with age. But it also bears witness to a country transitioning from dictatorship to democracy, finds the