Our Lady of Demerara Breda Sullivan

Our Lady of Demerara Breda SullivanDrama critic Lance Yardley is only 30 but is already a seedy wreck of a man, spending his nights in the back streets of Coventry looking for prostitutes. A working class boy brought up in a broken home on a council estate, he has sought escape in literature and through his marriage to an actress, the great granddaughter of a 19th century Englishman who made his fortune from the sugar plantations in Guyana. At first Elizabeth attracts Yardley, but

his collections include the trilogy Cantares Amazônicos which has been translated into German and Italian

Times Literary Supplement

translated by Allison Blecker

the capacity to embrace this past and to see wholly afresh what was once familiar and unremarked

"A strong second collection

Majella Cullinane was born and raised in Limerick

charts the growth of professional theatre-writing in Wales

Punch drunk with day-trippers

But I’ve kept quiet about the poems

which is a touching account of lost love through the image of a fingertip

But the ‘Silent Holocaust’ of Guatemala was extraordinarily brutal even by the standards of Central America

a few quick strokes