A Pocketful of Chalk A K EL Janabi Already you can smell the

Already you can smell the apples on the air

Years later

A bilingual introduction to the work of one of the leading poets on the Belarusian scene today – lyrical

As the characters navigate safe passage between a chorus of overlapping voices

Gerard Noiret fuses the banal and the extraordinary

A Pocketful of Chalk A K EL Janabi Already you can smell theThe South Downs lie at the heart of this collection the sunsets and huge skies, cliffs and fossils, fishing vessels and windmills, people and sheep. Past, present and future collide within geological and emotional landscapes. Life erupts magically out of plum trees. Love is as friable as chalk, and as deeply underpinned. A lost father is redeemed through the gift of a chocolate rabbit, a loved one returns in the shape of a trombone. Mothers, both