Playing Paradise by Katie Hale process Allen-Paisant refracts his European travels

Allen-Paisant refracts his European travels and considers the Black male body

Her first prose work In Memory of Memory established her internationally as one of the most important intellectual voices of contemporary Russia

all the while offering the reader palpable moments of tenderness

If they made him Poet Laureate on Friday

There are poems about the darker times of Germany's modern history

Playing Paradise by Katie Hale process Allen-Paisant refracts his European travelsKatie Hale is a Cumbrian novelist and poet. Her collection, White Ghosts, won a Northern Debut Award, and she is the author of two novels: The Edge of Solitude and My Name is Monster. She is a former MacDowell Fellow, and winner of the Palette Poetry Prize, Northern Writers' Award, and Aesthetica Creative Writing Prize. She has held Writer in Residence positions in countries including Australia, the US and Svalbard. Katie also mentors young writers