The Crumb Road by Maitreyabandhu Winter With themes ranging from the

With themes ranging from the sense of home and racialised expectations

Landau captures the ways humans persist

Moniza Alvi's new book is unified by birds

ancestors and grandchildren

where language gives way to newness and wonder'

The Crumb Road by Maitreyabandhu Winter With themes ranging from theMaitreyabandhu's thematically varied debut collection includes poems of spiritual transcendence as well as meditations on love, memory and sexuality. Sometimes comic, often elegiac, the poems convey the pleasures and terrors of childhood as well as the mystical world of fable. Truthful, tender, and written with a kind of wonderment, the collection culminates in 'Stephen', an extended sequence of poems exploring a clandestine, and finally tragic,