Notes of Your MusicI have grown older and loved others, but I shall always carry some notes of your music in my pockets, like petals, wherever I go. In his fourth collection of sonnets bookended by two free form pieces James Nash sets out to celebrate what may be gone, or flag up what might be celebrated before it goes. From the simple music of the bottle bank (a favourite task), to the biggest questions of the human experience, the poet's gentle, perceptive gaze

every phrase a treat

and other ethnic groups under British rule during the twilight years of indentureship

to experience her life’s great

The Blue Book (2000) and Skirrid Hill (2006)

As events spiral out of control

crackling with wit and music

Nihad Sirees – A short story Thinking of Naima

Argenis picks his way through the detritus of an abandoned generation: the drag queens

translated by Alastair Thomson

Taher Wattar: Excerpt from the novel The Earthquake

in the impoverished southern region of Lucania

manual work denied to him