Tan Raptures Ahmad Zein it celebrates the relationship between

it celebrates the relationship between a grandmother (from Dominica) and her grandson as she tells him about her childhood adventures in the rainforest and her encounters with the mysterious Ti Bolom

different but equal in importance to their large family

a flurry of response that is a ‘cosmos or order or harmony in a bag full of hard to categorize leaves’

and the Order of Distinction from the Government of Jamaica in 1999

Tan Raptures Ahmad Zein it celebrates the relationship betweenTaking its title from the brown envelopes that strike fear into benefit claimants and the biblical Rapture, Alan Morrisons eighth collection imagines these letters as passports to a twisted Tory notion of salvation through benefit sanction. Tan Raptures is a series of verse missives from the frontline of the war against the poor and its spirit stripping weapons of food banks, poor doors and homeless spikes. Its a peoples history, from Dale Farm and