The Zoo Father Sheila O'Hagan combines love poems with political

combines love poems with political satire

one of the qualities of the book is the way it brings the voices of Montserratians so vividly to life

while he seeks solace in painting

The dark menace lurking in the best fairy tales is never far from the surface in most of these stories

Lebanese Abbas Beydoun with an excerpt from Blood Test

The Zoo Father Sheila O'Hagan combines love poems with politicalShortlisted for the 2001 T. S. Eliot Prize, this unique collection centres on a daughter's fraught relationship with her dying father, a man whose legacy to her was violence and abandonment. Rich in the imagery of the Amazonian jungle (fire ants, shaman masks, hummingbirds, shrunken heads, jaguars) these poems at once ward off and redeem the father through myriad transformations. In contrast, 'The Vineyard' series is inspired by the author's mother