If the River is Hidden Edited by Raine Geoghegan Samuel (Sam) Selvon was born

Samuel (Sam) Selvon was born in San Fernando in 1923

The resulting bilingual volume is a fascinating and enlightening introduction to Portuguese poetry

It’s a demand for the right of return for the five million Palestinians living in exile

’ Brigitte magazine

and staring across the water to the house in which his half-Native daughter Elizabeth has grown up

If the River is Hidden Edited by Raine Geoghegan Samuel (Sam) Selvon was bornIf the River is Hidden charts the journey of two writers from the source to the mouth of the Bann, Northern Irelands longest river. Through a dialogue of prose and poetry the history, landscape and divisions that have come to define the North are explored and challenged. With backgrounds from each side of the sectarian divide, theirs is a journey of uncovering a sense of place and of searching for meaning; a reshaping of the authors' own memories,