Tormentil by Ian Humphreys ocean vuong corresponding to the five arrows

corresponding to the five arrows of Kama

from nocturnes and lullabies in hilly Port of Spain to 'stillness exercises' recording microenvironments – emotional and aural – around English trees

The poems of Arundhathi Subramaniam's Love Without a Story celebrate an expanding kinship: of passion and friendship

Something is realised through the poem

a Persian painting of a bulbul

Tormentil by Ian Humphreys ocean vuong corresponding to the five arrowsIan Humphreys follows his Portico prize longlisted debut Zebra with Tormentil, poems alive with the connections of family, food, community, place and, at its heart, prayers for fabulousness and transformative encounters with loss, fear and fearlessness. "A powerful, moving, original body of work. These are poems which will find readers, hit nerves, matter to people." Jean Sprackland on Zebra Nine Arches Press