Falling Body Montasser El-Qaffash using multi-layered vocabularies

using multi-layered vocabularies

Ali Mosbah – Istanbul Diary

TRIBUTE: Bassem K

she is entirely at his mercy

Stephen Dobyns

Falling Body Montasser El-Qaffash using multi-layered vocabulariesThe poems in Falling Body, David Cavanagh's second collection, cover ground with quirkiness, precision, and grace. They move the way a life moves in and out of personal and public territory, past and present perspectives, inner and outer worlds. They chart inevitable falls and celebrate, sometimes with wry humour, sometimes with muted joy, getting up again. The poems touch down lightly on large topics and move on, nervous of becoming trapped in easy