Belief Systems Edited by Stuart Bell

Belief Systems Edited by Stuart BellThe poems in Tamar Yoseloff's Belief Systems act as a call to make something worthwhile from the wreckage of our world, in the spirit of the radical artists she evokes, such as John Latham, John Cage and Robert Rauschenberg visionaries who located power and beauty in what is forgotten.

New Welsh Review

Mehdi Charef: continuing excerpt from Alexina’s House

these poems explore migrant heritage

he blessed himself with his hand

There is — along with her characteristic “gossipy voice” — reverence

spider-mites mealybugs and white termites

is incredible

a portrait of her sister the poet Saniya Salih

linguistic metamorphosis and variation made him a sort of ‘poet’s poet’

and life-changing circumstances for very many people

Kathryn Tickell

a loyal and yet crafty kingmaker