Christina the AstonishingSaint Christina the Astonishing was born into a poor Belgian family in 1150. She died aged 22 but at her requiem she rose from her coffin and flew away like a bird, wanting to escape the smell of sinful humanity. This was the first of many mad, disobedient exploits in her long and remarkable life. Jane Draycott and Lesley Saunders retell through their own poems as well as brief extracts from medieval religious writers Christinas story as a womans

and then memories of a deeply personal kind

among so many other excursions

killing thousands

Prize-winning poet

anecdote and history gives us new insights into the patterns and vivacity of life in one of the most beautiful places in Britain

This is his debut collection

David Calcutt

all of which threaten to drag him back to where he came from

she is also a judge for the Koestler whose awards encourage prisoners to participate in the Arts

Wild Mulberries by Iman Humaydan Younes

and the Age of Saints that came before and

But one day her friends Ana and Ilo ask her to join them on an adventure outside during another downpour