Deaf Republic Ian Patterson Yellow Rain calls out the

Yellow Rain calls out the erasure of a history

“all the worlds

Yet this fertile mode which in its time has drawn the likes of Charles Baudelaire

and with glosses by William Rowe and Helen Dimos)

the beech trees tower like skyscrapers

Deaf Republic Ian Patterson Yellow Rain calls out theIlya Kaminsky The long awaited new collection from Ilya Kaminsky: a remarkable parable in poems which asks us, what is silence? Deaf Republic opens in a time of political unrest in an occupied territory. It is uncertain where we are or when, in what country or during what conflict, but we come to recognise that these events are also happening here, right now. This astonishing parable in poems unfolds episodically like a play, its powerful narrative