Are You Ready? Khalid Kishtainy He writes regularly for the

He writes regularly for the Guardian

they include Nadia Alkowkobani

heritage and

betrayal - and how much we can afford to lose

He edited the Worker's Weekly

Are You Ready? Khalid Kishtainy He writes regularly for the"The Ireland of 2009 has almost as many 'serious' poets as it does blocks of unsold apartments. What I love about John Corless's poetry is that instead of pretending to sit po faced on the summit of Mount Parnassus, it goes absolutely in the opposite direction. Like Swift, Paul Durcan and Rita Ann Higgins before him, Corless takes the low road and shines the telltale torchlight of his killer wit into all the most embarrassing areas of contemporary