The Godmother and other Stories Karen McNeil She won the 2010 Manchester

She won the 2010 Manchester Poetry Prize and the 2009 Poetry London Competition

the excerpt “Earthquake Nightmare” is particularly chilling

was re-published as All This and Many a Dog

when he attended University College-Galway

the conventions - political

The Godmother and other Stories Karen McNeil She won the 2010 ManchesterCovering more than four decades in the lives of Guyanese at home or in Britain and Canada, these stories have an intensive and rewarding inner focus on a character at a point of crisis. Harold is celebrating the victory of the political party he supports whilst confronting a sense of his own powerlessness; Jacob has been sent back to Guyana from Britain after suffering a mental breakdown; Chuni, a worker at the university, is confused by the climate