Moss & Silver Bill Johnstone

Moss & Silver Bill JohnstoneJure Detelapoet, activist, and mysticwas a key figure in the vibrant avant garde movement that defined Slovenian culture in the 1980s. The forty four poems of Moss & Silver anticipate the radical environmentalism and animal rights activism of the 21st century while engaging in a passionate dialogue with wide array of poets from William Wordsworth to Kobayashi Issa. Although he often railed against the defenders of Slovene [traditional poetic] beauty

Sharon Olds

A swarm of snowfleas seethes through leaf litter

he has unquestionably arrived

interviews and poetry by high-profile writers on their experiences of creating art while also engaged in the compelling

Carrie Etter's poems have the economy of good jokes

these poems trace a search for identity and for the meaning of family which everyone can relate to

This collection will affirm the sense that 'now' is the only thing we truly have – and reveal it as something to be celebrated and acknowledged

"This is a poet who takes the pulse of his age

and is a freelance contributor to the [i]Times Educational Supplement[/i]

The Telegraph and the BBC website

from Algiers via Swansea

restlessly pushing words beyond their given forms and meanings to say new things in new ways about our complicated knife-edge times"