Kith Vénus Khoury-Ghata Is the sun afraid of

Is the sun afraid of dying

and family

Sunday at the Skin Launderette

The colourful paintings of the German expressionist Franz Marc

Kith Vénus Khoury-Ghata Is the sun afraid ofLove, sex, boats and friendship. And yet Jo Bells second poetry collection, Kith, is about so much more, as these bold and generous poems interweave bigger questions of place, identity and community and what these mean to us, here and now. Delighting in the belting, beautiful turn of phrase, Jo Bells poems are lyrical and joyous, but always precise and clear as birdsong. They take us the long way home, plot histories along the route of backwaters, and