Indigenous Species by Khairani Barokka Kae Tempest says a voice in the

says a voice in the first poem of Roy McFarlane’s Beginning with Your Last Breath

These include many of his best-known poems

one who is seeking his ‘one true beloved’ through an heroic tally of amorous encounters

' – David Harsent

while a homage to twentieth-century Italian painter Ottone Rosai asks

Indigenous Species by Khairani Barokka Kae Tempest says a voice in theA young girl is abducted and smuggled aboard a boat bound upstream on an Indonesian river, through a landscape scarred by ecological destruction and historical greed. As her captors take her ever deeper into the jungle, her uncertain fate is compounded by the sense of her environment as a place of violence, destruction and jeopardy. But it is also a place from which she herself is indigenous, and if she can root herself back into its landscape and