Dangerous Freedom Format:Paperback

Dangerous Freedom Format:Paperback'They tell you one thing but you are not free.' London in 1802 is a dangerous place for black people, unsure of their legal status and threatened by slave catchers. Elizabeth dAviniere, the mixed race great niece of the Lord Chief Justice, who had spent her childhood in his home, now fears for her own childrens safety and yearns for her mother, an African born enslaved woman. Why did she no longer write? Was she dead? Had she been recaptured?

He edited the definitive anthology Irish Poetry after Yeats (1978

fishermen and boat-builders

Mark Granier's second collection

Rupert Read helps us to understand the direness of our predicament while showing us a metaphor and a method – a way of thinking – by which we might transform it

The author’s coolly intelligent wit is to the fore in ‘Devouring Jane’

often serve as moral compasses

Purgatory canto xix

with all its elegant

Read a few opening lines and you’ll find yourself helplessly engaged

Magdalene is understandably nervous about the return

origins and anger

Fixed Ideas explores how their relationship and perception of each other develops in the aftermath