Future Blues Mohamed Salah al-Azab patience and a survivalist's strict

patience and a survivalist's strict attention to detail comes through in her work

Guest-edited by Jonathan Davidson and Jackie Wills

Runner up for the Whitbread award

customs and superstitions

Future Blues Mohamed Salah al-Azab patience and a survivalist's strictFuture Blues is both a progression from and a break with Michael S. Begnals previous collection, Ancestor Worship, which was described by the Irish Literary Supplement as an attempt at reconstructing an obscured heritage. While traces of this impulse inevitably recur, Future Blues hurtles forward, seeking out new images and modes of being, even as our collective future death looms. Future Blues, in its title, lashes Irish poetry past and future into