Small Hands by Mona Arshi Helen Mort and Contemporary Poetry from the

and Contemporary Poetry from the Canary Islands (1992)

and a generous selection from the work of Máirtín Ó Direáin

wandering clerics of the Middle Ages

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Small Hands by Mona Arshi Helen Mort and Contemporary Poetry from theWinner of the 2015 Forward Prize for Best First Collection Mona Arshis debut collection, 'Small Hands', introduces a brilliant and compelling new voice. At the centre of the book is the slow detonation of grief after her brothers death but her work focuses on the whole variety of human experience: pleasure, hardship, tradition, energised by language which is in turn both tender and risky. Often startling as well as lyrical, Arshis poems resist fixity;