Citizens Madhu Joshi if I treat them like

if I treat them like rational creatures

translated by Ghenwa Hayek

where he teaches Irish Studies and his duties at Trinity College Dublin

the hand which had tamed the thorny slope

Days lengthen

Citizens Madhu Joshi if I treat them likePossibly the only poet to have published poems in the TLS and the Morning Star on the same day, Ian Parks new collection is a book about the tensions between poetry and politics, the spoken and the unspoken, the public and the private. Accompanied by the ghosts of Ella Fitzgerald, Honeyboy Edwards and the Chartist Poets Ebenezer Elliott and Ernest Jones, Parks listens to the language of the lost and dispossessed as he explores sites of painful