Half Other by Peter Wallis Antony Owen alongside new work reflecting and

alongside new work reflecting and developing earlier themes of the lives of women

a generation whose poetics is placed in a wider context by the editor and translator Ieva Lešinska and by the leading poet and translator of the older generation Juris Kronbergs

Some enquire into the natural world and our human place in it

and to the wild creature deep in each one of us whom we ignore at our peril

Half Other by Peter Wallis Antony Owen alongside new work reflecting andI have been kissed in the street by an unknown blonde. Half Other explores the experience of being one of a pair of twins identical in the eyes of the world around them. The three legged race comes naturally. They finish each others sentences. Looking through old photos, even the twins themselves have difficulty in telling which is which. No photo ever shows a twin alone. Half Other begins as a gloriously witty recreation of childhood, brimful with