The Pot of Earth and the Iron Pot by Ruth McIlroy Arun Jeetoo ’ – Penelope Shuttle on

’ – Penelope Shuttle on Chick

a portrait and a celebration by Miles Champion

Herliany is typical of the second generation of Indonesian writers which emerged after the mid-1980s during the New Order of President Suharto

— Sara Baume

The Pot of Earth and the Iron Pot by Ruth McIlroy Arun Jeetoo ’ – Penelope Shuttle onI was happy being machine when round the bend beside a stream was birdsong happening in the trees. Ruth McIlroy is a poet of the tilting world. Her lyrics are charged with immediacy and proceed off kilter in the revelation of familiar experience as unfamiliar and normality as something quite other. There is much here, directly and indirectly, of heroic Gaelic song, both ancient and modern, conveying humour, darkness and arresting beauty executed with