Anna Mendelssohn, whose poetry has also appeared under the names Anne Mendelson and Grace Lake, was born near Manchester in 1948. Various collections of poems appeared before her death in 2009 and now “I’m working here” brings together all her work in a meticulously prepared edition.   Sean Sheehan   […]

Wood, gold and oil have made Peru prosperous but the human cost has been high and is borne by the poorest people –the indigenous, that is- in the country. These are families who have not left the land to find employment and better prospects in urban areas.   Sean Sheehan […]

The back cover of Mahtab Hussain’s “You get me?” is a condensed anthology of headlines from some of Britain’s most awful newspapers.   Sean sheehan   This is just four of them:  “Muslim thugs aged Just 12 in knife attack on Brit schoolboy” (Daily Star, 2010), “Muslims tell us how […]

This is how Helga Paris, a photographer in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), came to take the photographs in “Women at work”.   Sean Sheehan   “Whenever I was at the shopping centre, I looked at people, watched them closely, imagined how they come home tired from work, before they […]