Mother of Flip-flops Michael Shepler

Mother of Flip-flops Michael SheplerMukahang Limbu's reputation as a key voice in a new generation of poets has been gathering momentum across a number of years, and its brilliance is captured here in his debut publication. Mother of Flip Flops is a queering of migrant experience, a love song to the mother, a celebration and questioning of the self. Defiant and shifting, these poems articulate a unique coming of age, and what it means to do so with a heightened exchange of empathy.

of personal and wider history

A gripping psychological tale

and silence – self-inflicted or otherwise – the poems give voice to the fears and experiences that shape us

Get Thee to a Nunnery

” In his newest collection

She compiled and edited Forgotten Light: An Anthology of Memory Poems (2003)

His other titles include the Penguin Classic

in Europe and other parts of the world

Ireland's place has always been firmly in Europe and its citizens tied to a greater scheme of things

Maram al-Massri (Syria)

A close observer of nature

forty-something green campaigner Tessa is mortified at what they rake up