The Kabul Olympics by John McAuliffe anthology In her finest book to

In her finest book to date

The strange and beautiful language of his late poems is recreated by David Constantine in these remarkable verse translations

R Williams Parry and Saunders Lewis to folk poets such as Alun Cilie and Dic Jones

'Pascale’s poems are as fresh as paint

and which warning lights should you never ignore

The Kabul Olympics by John McAuliffe anthology In her finest book toThe Kabul Olympics is a book of impossible places, from the imagined Kabul of the title poem to City of Trees which conjures an alternate, parallel Manchester in the aftermath of the Arena bombing, from a plane spiralling ever upwards into the eye of a storm in Godsend to the becalmed travels of The Harbours, a sequence which reflects on nationalism and border crossing. Many of these poems find themselves in the dark, on journeys whose destinations