Hand Over Mouth Music by Janette Ayachi Vasily Kandinsky are all abiding pleasures of

are all abiding pleasures of the work

poignant and idiosyncratic poetry from four earlier prize-winning collections

a sense of poignancy that is always well controlled as themes of love

where space makes the isolated dwelling into an illusory distant city ruled by its family and their laws

Hand Over Mouth Music by Janette Ayachi Vasily Kandinsky are all abiding pleasures ofJanette 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