God Forbid They Hear Us Laughing: New and Selected Poems by Bobby Parker women'spoetry exquisite and original anthology that

exquisite and original anthology that illuminates Japanese travel writing over a thousand years

contrapuntal monologues of a Palestinian and an Israeli poet

somehow manages to build a monument for those Caribbean people who fought in that war

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of heartbreaking poignancy and laugh-out-loud humour

God Forbid They Hear Us Laughing: New and Selected Poems by Bobby Parker women'spoetry exquisite and original anthology thatGod Forbid They Hear Us Laughing by Bobby Parker is a savage, tender selection that holds fatherhood and addiction, love and shame, sex and violence in the same shaking hands. These poems move through council estates, underpasses, chip shops, pubs, pharmacies, church tents and school corridors with a voice that is brazenly funny and abruptly devastating, switching from punchline to prayer in a breath. Parker's work is stocked with the lived textures