The Malvern Aviator Mohja Kahf with the young nun the

with the young nun the children call Mouse

running to 140 pages bursting with poems

Herzegovina to Hungary

my father was strapping up my trunk

and giving a voice to characters from the past who would not otherwise have had a voice

The Malvern Aviator Mohja Kahf with the young nun theIn language that is both precise and strange, Richard Skinners poems tip certainties on their heads, making familiar objects in the world unfamiliar: a mountain is not what it seems, a skull contains a universe. Alongside this process of making strange lies a deep connection with sound, colour, temperature and scent that brings the poems fully to life. Questions of faith run through many of these poems, with subjects ranging from the Lollards and