Lightning Beneath the SeaLightning Beneath the Sea is a lively first collection of poems in English by Grahame Davies. He brings a native warmth, an intimate, conversational tone, and a raised cultural awareness to these poems. He favours rhyme and meter in a number of memorable instances like Capital Bookshop and Valley Villanelle; he can use a longer, narrative, free verse line as in Dangerous; and there are several found poems as in the witty The Complete Index of Welsh

Ovid and including Hughes’s invented language for Orghast

I boil my fathers penis

from which he graduated with distinction

Nuit de l’étranger by Habib Selmi

P G Wodehouse

his return to figure paintings and an extensive investigation of the folk resources of Caribbean art

• Writers who are completely new to Western readers are Nazum al-Obeidi and Nassif Falak (who has his own hair-raising personal story of flight

and the wider world

He raised his head up out of the clothes and slightly lifted the edge of the curtain

he edited the 2003 Salmon Poetry anthology Fire and Ice: Nine Poets from Scandinavia and the North

The magazine is open to tradition and experiment

strikes a characteristic note