Hand Over Mouth Music by Janette Ayachi Selima Hill These two extraordinary volumes find

These two extraordinary volumes find their place alongside The Colossus and Ariel in the oeuvre of a singular talent

through every historic-organic pattern

for instance – these versions shadow the originals

This is eco-poetry beautifully realised and retold in the form of a contemporary fable

the still unfulfilled promise of Latin America

Hand Over Mouth Music by Janette Ayachi Selima Hill These two extraordinary volumes findJanette Ayachi's dazzling first collection moves between remembered and imagined spaces as she celebrates the world's variousness, and the energies and exhaustions of the body. Revelling in the many voices she might find for herself, Ayachi locates herself in both her Algerian and Scottish roots, her relationships with her family and lovers, her own motherhood, and an equally joyful but more precarious exploration of desire. More than anything, this