Hand Over Mouth Music by Janette Ayachi Selima Hill This is eco-poetry beautifully realised

This is eco-poetry beautifully realised and retold in the form of a contemporary fable

of a city overcome by an epidemic of weeping

through every historic-organic pattern

A quarter of a century and more since the fall of communism

'Theatrical

Hand Over Mouth Music by Janette Ayachi Selima Hill This is eco-poetry beautifully realisedJanette Ayachi's dazzling first collection moves between remembered and imagined spaces as she celebrates the world's variousness, and the energies and exhaustions of the body. Revelling in the many voices she might find for herself, Ayachi locates herself in both her Algerian and Scottish roots, her relationships with her family and lovers, her own motherhood, and an equally joyful but more precarious exploration of desire. More than anything, this