This Paradise: Stories Abdulla al-Harrasi Selected Poems 1935-81 is a

Selected Poems 1935-81 is a unique poetic record of British intellectual and political life from the high hopes of the Popular Front and the anti-Fascist War through the long retreat of the Cold War to the nuclear arms race of the 1980s

Now that their mother is dead this is the last link they have to the declining town on the north-west coast where they grew up

Lea Goldberg’s exquisite sequence ‘Songs of Spain’

holy helper and healer

religion and disillusionment

This Paradise: Stories Abdulla al-Harrasi Selected Poems 1935-81 is aA family prepares for Assessment. Two brothers haggle over the legacy of their parents. A computer game designer aches with curious longings. Amidst it all, sisters, heroines, rebels, lunar moths and a not insignificant number of rabbits play out their lives under the strange grips of technology, governments, corporations and the capricious planets on which we all, in our different ways, just about manage to live. This Paradise is a rare and beautiful