Heaven by Manuel Vilas Julie Egdell Edward Mackay

Edward Mackay

Kapil demonstrates how survival tunes the guest to its host with devastating intimacy: ‘It’s exhausting to be a guest / In somebody else’s house / Forever

act as a way of becoming

Such contradictions are expressed in his intense poetry

of passageways and thresholds

Heaven by Manuel Vilas Julie Egdell Edward MackayManuel Vilas speaks in the voice of bitter experience, experience which seems intent on sending him up. He is a novelist as well as a poet, and his poems tell stories as the speaker moves quixotically across the map and between romances. His instinct for rhythm gives the reader a firm sense of place and tone. Universal in their concerns, taking in love and the end of love, life and the end of life, the poems are also resolutely Spanish in how they