The Godmother and other Stories Karen McNeil She won the 2010 Manchester

She won the 2010 Manchester Poetry Prize and the 2009 Poetry London Competition

A cat that lives in the desert and never drinks

was re-published as All This and Many a Dog

moving music off the paper is a philosophical consideration of jazz composition

who publishes Arab authors in Swedish translation

The Godmother and other Stories Karen McNeil She won the 2010 ManchesterCovering more than four decades in the lives of Guyanese at home or in Britain and Canada, these stories have an intensive and rewarding inner focus on a character at a point of crisis. Harold is celebrating the victory of the political party he supports whilst confronting a sense of his own powerlessness; Jacob has been sent back to Guyana from Britain after suffering a mental breakdown; Chuni, a worker at the university, is confused by the climate