Sophie Mayer

Seven more books from the stacks this month: I've been thinking and writing about how...

• Keri Finlayson excavated the (moving) pictures in her grandmother's Rooms
• many words Sascha Aurora Akhtar can use to form the magical Grimoire of Grimalkin 
• to pack for the long, dark winter of the soul in Sarah Hesketh's lovely début Napoleon's Travelling Bookshelf
• reviewers might be tigers and poets might be snails, courtesy of the brilliantly acerbic Dorothea Rosa Herliany in Kill the Radio
• the war works harder in Dunya Mikhail's poetry than mainstream British verse
• to cook, eat and/or dance poetry with Lorna Goodison's luscious Guinea Woman
• another world is possible (through language) in Inger Christensen's book-length sci-fi poem It 

Comments (and suggestions for further reading) welcome!