WITCH Ali Mosbah Sheers’ novel tells of a

Sheers’ novel tells of a town in thrall to the sinister corporation ICU – until the day when a stranger appears in the dunes

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of clay soil and carved its crumbling bed

Martti Hynynen

WITCH Ali Mosbah Sheers’ novel tells of aWITCH by Rebecca Tams is a raw, strange book of poems that merges feminist exploration with occult expression and ecological language. At turns lyrical, philosophical and obscene, Tamss astonishing debut evokes the sexual prowess of nature as an organism that swallows and consumes. These are poems that unsettle the reader, taking them to dark, magical places where earth and blood, politics and pornography, intermingle; they celebrate poetry as a