Artifice Ahmed Rashid Thani images of Thompson's paintings and

images of Thompson's paintings and extracts from his poetry

She works in an Italian café in a close-knit mining town in the Valleys

also looking at new opportunities for development that will encourage a new generation of literary translators

In her poem ‘Bumbu Clat’

The priest’s fragmented journals seem to offer Yardley some possible answers to his own spiritual malaise

Artifice Ahmed Rashid Thani images of Thompson's paintings andArtifice is an exploration of the art of making. Its poems celebrate the artistry of craftsmanship: how works relate to beauty, and how they might inspire or ensnare. They consider issues of artificiality and authenticity, the man made and the natural. They warn of artfulness, in the sense of cunning or deception. And they wonder at the mystery of art and language, that which resolutely remains unknown or ineffable. For Artifice is as much riddle as