Richard Rose is Professor Emeritus in Inclusive Education at the University of Northampton and is the author of more than 100 academic works related to education and children’s rights. His poetry has been published in literary magazines and anthologies in several countries and his collection of poetry, “A Sense of Place” was published by Cyberwit in 2000. He is also the co-author of “Letters to Lucia” a play about James Joyce’s daughter.
When Clea returns to London with her new Russian husband, she is surprised to see him become even more eccentric.
A haunting dystopia some readers have called “the new 1984.” In a society where memory is rewritten and resistance is pre-approved, freedom isn’t restricted; it’s redefined. As systems evolve beyond human control and choice becomes a simulation, true defiance means refusing the script, even when the system already knows you will.
“13 short pieces…pungently convey the effects of growing up under a totalitarian regime.” .—Publishers Weekly
Original poetry by Nina Kossman, accompanied by a selection of poems by Marina Tsvetaeva, translated from Russian by Kossman. “The sea is a postcard,” writes Nina Kossman. There is both something elemental in this vision and—iron-tough.”
—Ilya Kaminsky