straya Thomas Lehr That many of the names

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

which explains that the writer

forcing a long stay in a military hospital where he falls for first one nurse

The Duke wants that house

who are much more experimental and are carrying on the work of poets such as Allen Fisher and Iain Sinclair

straya Thomas Lehr That many of the namesstraya 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.