Judas Goat Ning Ken and translated by James Trapp

Judas Goat Ning Ken and translated by James TrappGabrielle Batess electric debut collection Judas Goat plumbs the depths of intimate relationships. The books eponymous animal is used to lead sheep to slaughter while its own life is spared, and its harrowing existence echoes through this spellbinding collection of forty poems, which wrestle with betrayal and forced obedience, violence and young womanhood, and the forbidden felt language of sexual and sacred love. These poems conjure encounters with

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Wafa’a Lamrani: Poems

This landmark anthology

present and future are set to collide

the prostitutes are collecting stray dogs

carefully curated by editors Anne Caldwell and Oz Hardwick

A member of the group reflects on their shared mourning

to a rendezvous I postponed more than once

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Bethan Roberts

He lives in Glasgow