Distant Sunflower Fields Mahadai Das

Distant Sunflower Fields Mahadai DasAn iron willed mother, an ageing grandmother, a pair of mismatched dogs and 90 acres of less than ideal farmland: these are Li Juans companions on the steppes of the Gobi Desert. Writing out of a yurt under Xinjiangs endless horizons, she documents her familys quest to extract a bounty of sunflowers amid the harsh beauty and barren expanses of Chinas northwest frontier. Success must be eked out in the face of lifes unnegotiable realities: sandstorms,

Joumana Haddad A poem The Return of Lilith

Filled with humour

But can he handle such a departure

detached and objective

complex soul'- Kevin Le Gendre

a writer who doesn’t write

splash through the river and squelch through the mud in search of a bear

Things of Substance brings together poems written over the last six years with selected pieces from earlier publications

WINNER of the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature 2020

– Chris McCabe

the rubbish heap where the very poorest squat

to gay men in a Bangkok sex club