Before the Rain Jan Lowe Shinebourne was born in Oxford in

was born in Oxford in 1962

Hodell’s pacifist and anarchist politics are always present

as he calls them

the pen is mightier than the arrow

This ambitious collection hums with complex feeling

Before the Rain Jan Lowe Shinebourne was born in Oxford inIn bringing together poems and short stories in one collection, Christine Craig looks both inward at herself as the reflector and celebrant of the experiences of a long life, and outward as the observer and creator of the dramas of other lives. Her world encompasses hazard, cruelty, and the abuse of power but it is seen with a hopeful eye that pays homage to the resourcefulness of Jamaican aunties, finds joy in the promiscuity of a garden nurtured by