Desperanto Mangalesh Dabral

Desperanto Mangalesh DabralNot Esperanto ! Desperanto is the universal language of despair ! It is spoken by the hopeless, learned by the luckless and sung by the broken armies of losers, lovers and lefties everywhere. It is the literary language of the More or Less Deceived. With a bit of help from William Blake, Jake Thackray, Philip Larkin and Georges Perec, Mike Wilson offers a beginners guide to the emotional grammar of Desperanto, where defeat is a regular verb, hope

And so Europe lost the man who would have dined at our expense on the finest French cuisine and voted for anything that made the world a safer place for eccentrics

Kaneko Misuzu

of our fields

For he will not do destruction

the last in a sequence of love poems

and literary festivals photo-reports

separates arms and legs from trunks

The sixth in a much-praised series of bi-lingual anthologies which focus on the 'smaller' languages of Europe

“Her writing is direct and sensuous

Knute Skinner's first full-length collection in six years

For I will consider my cat Jeoffry

Kevin Simmonds