Maskwork John Banville Both her fiction fans and

Both her fiction fans and poetry readers will find much to enjoy in The Bramble King

Sargon Boulus: Poem

a school for troubled teens in Milton

Helen Constantine

a prostitute who lives and fails to find love on the Dungle

Maskwork John Banville Both her fiction fans andIn Gregory Leadbetters second poetry collection, Maskwork, mystery, theatre and ritual combine to reveal rather than to disguise. The mask, in these resonant poems, acts as a way of becoming, seeing, and knowing granting access to altered states and otherworlds hidden within and beyond ourselves. Here, language itself becomes an animating magic, connecting humans to our ecological roots. The spirit of revival, renaissance, new birth and rebirth haunts