Touched by Alan Buckley Russell Jones the German charitable organisation for

the German charitable organisation for education and reparation in countries throughout the world that have suffered under fascism and other oppressive regimes

so enabling Lleshanaku to look back at the reality of her Albanian past and give voice to those who could not speak for themselves

one of the most powerful poetic statements of the year

Yet it has long remained a hidden territory - and even now

helping us face or embrace daily change and disruption

Touched by Alan Buckley Russell Jones the German charitable organisation forSome kinds of human damage are invisible and Not suffering in silence goes against the grain, as Alan Buckley says in Script. But the poems in Touched, his first full collection, do speak out. With delicacy and precision, they explore how it is to live with the psychological impact of trauma. In this landscape of risk, where the prospect of healing means everything, trust is perilous. As for lovewell, love is no less than terrifying. But not