Pike in a Carp Pond by Pnina Shinebourne Iliad edited by Sandra Alland

edited by Sandra Alland

Resisting modernity’s unearthly glare

a ghost stalks her quarry at a stepped well

Niall Campbell

childish behaviours

Pike in a Carp Pond by Pnina Shinebourne Iliad edited by Sandra AllandPike in a Carp Pond is a book about vision and resilience, imagination and the making of meaning. In her first full length collection, Pnina Shinebourne re imagines the lives of two major twentieth century figures the English painter Stanley Spencer, and the German Communist leader Rosa Luxemburg. While Spencer (1891 1959) found glimpses of heaven in the lives of Cookham villagers, soldiers in the trenches and shipyard workers on the Clyde, Rosa