Sunlight on Sweet Water Piers Amodia and Poetry Editor Amy Wack

and Poetry Editor Amy Wack

- Nottingham Evening Post

at times deeply in love

Douglas Dunn

and are indebted to all the translators and copy-editors who made the issue possible

Sunlight on Sweet Water Piers Amodia and Poetry Editor Amy WackBeryl Gilroy transports the reader back to the Guyanese village of her childhood over sixty years ago to meet such characters as Mr Dewsbury the Dog Doctor, Mama Darlin' the village midwife and Mr Cumberbatch the Chief Mourner. It was a time when "children did not have open access to the world of adults and childhood had not yet disappeared", and perhaps for this reason, the men and women who pass through these stories have a mystery and singularity