Emergency Window Wendy Cope

Emergency Window Wendy CopeIn his ambitious second full collection, Ross Sutherland is an uneasy observer of our age of inauthenticity, hacked computers and digital avatars. Emergency Window features new poems alongside excerpts from two recent sequences, including a hilarious and strangely prescient version of Little Red Riding Hood, a poem written using Google Streetview, sonnets inspired by the Street Fighter 2 video game, and a sequence of computer generated translations of

and finding refuge no easy matter

Gill McEvoy

his hand amputated

Sickert and other influential artists

from the Arab World

I play with their mirror-image of memory

sculpture and photography all prominent

does it weep

Prize-winning Saudi Arabian author Raja Alem recounts her passion for reading as a child and the world authors she read

I feel he will distinguish himself as one of the most original of younger writers

They are verbally scrupulous

Nurkse wrote of Cohort