Stranger in the Mask of a Deer Nell Dunn

Stranger in the Mask of a Deer Nell DunnStranger in the Mask of a Deer conjures an elemental, dreamlike narrative ranging from the present to the Late Upper Palaeolithic, when the British peninsula was gradually reoccupied by humans and animals returning from the greater continent after the Ice Age. Richard Skelton began this book length poem many years ago with the intention of exploring the history of Britains landscape, only for the text to transform into a kind of literary seance,

From South Sudan to the Western Sahara

murmurs and murmurations

a cockroach

The book tells of East London during the 1970s through the poetry of many of its people

• Stephanie Norgate

part grief memoir

was shortlisted for the Callum MacDonald Award from the National Library of Scotland (2004)

graduates of Columbia writing programme in New York City

the song that forms the symphony’s finale

places rarely visited

encyclopaedic knowledge of the world of jazz helps add luscious colour and exhaustive context to an already remarkable tale

and is rescued by Yarico