Small Hands by Mona Arshi Helen Mort Lilac and Flag and G

Lilac and Flag and G

Julia Bird's poems are beautifully textured

and a generous selection from the work of Máirtín Ó Direáin

The 'Terms and Conditions' of her new collection's title are those we live under

Playing the Octopus is a body of writing buoyed by the redemptive power and sustaining joy of music

Small Hands by Mona Arshi Helen Mort Lilac and Flag and GWinner of the 2015 Forward Prize for Best First Collection Mona Arshis debut collection, 'Small Hands', introduces a brilliant and compelling new voice. At the centre of the book is the slow detonation of grief after her brothers death but her work focuses on the whole variety of human experience: pleasure, hardship, tradition, energised by language which is in turn both tender and risky. Often startling as well as lyrical, Arshis poems resist fixity;