States of the Body Produced by Love Liz Quirke "The astonishingly acclomplished debut of

"The astonishingly acclomplished debut of a poet who will surely take his place among the very best of hisgeneration

a one-off card given to a Japanese businessman who refuses to sell

Translators extend the writ of the Republic of Humane Letters

Habib Selmi – Souad’s Tale – an excerpt from a novel

and others in the underworld who hate the police

States of the Body Produced by Love Liz Quirke "The astonishingly acclomplished debut ofStates of the Body Produced by Love is a modern mystical journey through love a many headed snake twisting through devotion, sacrifice and the dream of returning home. In her visionary debut, Nisha Ramayya conjures an opalescent world by way of Tantric ritual and myth. Thousand petalled lotuses bloom inside skulls, goddesses with dirty feet charm honeybees, strains of jazz standards bleed into anti national anthems. The book weaves essays, poetry and