Books published by Smokestack Books

The first adult collection in 8 years from the bestselling children's poet, and former Children's Laureate. At the heart of the book is a series of poems about anti-Semitism, Fascism and War, connecting the contemporary world to the lives of Rosen's parents and grandparents - the General Strike, the Battle of Cable Street, Vichy and Auschwitz.

In this new translation by the distinguished Scottish poet Tom Leonard of Brecht's great 1939 anti-war play "Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder," Mother Courage is a working-class woman from the West of Scotland speaking the racy working-class nonstandard language of Glasgow. The rest of the cast speak varieties of English language subtly shaded for ir