The Genesis of Falcon is an anthology of the winning, commended and specially mentioned poems and stories from the Sentinel Annual Poetry and Short Story Competitions 2012 judged by Roger Elkin (Poetry) and David Caddy (Fiction). Compiled by Nnorom Azuonye.

Sentinel Literary Quarterly is the Magazine of World Literature published in the United Kingdom by SPM Publications featuring poetry, fiction, drama, interviews and reviews. This October - December 2013 issue features: Poems by Rebecca Bilkau, Nick Pemberton, Mark Totterdell, Simon Jackson, Julie Mellor, Simon Collings, Bill Lythgoe, Jim Bennett, Kwabena Agyare Yeboa, David Caddy, Gbanabom Hallowell, Catherine Edmunds, Shanta Acharaya, Tom Pescatore, Simon Zonenblick, Jenny Powell, Ian C. Smith, Sheila Hamilton, Stanley M. Noah and Pansy Maurer-Alvarez. Short Stories by Joan Dowling, Jim...

Born in the Republic of Biafra on October 1, 1960, poet, playwright and actor Dr Esiaba Irobi, the Minstrel, lived in exile in Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States and Germany where he is said to have died, in Berlin, on the 3rd of May, 2010. It is his funeral. The Minstrel, however, as the funeral guests discover, is not the kind of guy that sleeps silently in a box. Esiaba Irobi is Esiaba Irobi. "Nnorom Azuonye has written a remarkable play that allows Esiaba Irobi's charismatic electricity to crackle from beyond the veil...capturing his speech, his brawling irreverence, diamond sharp...

Poems by Jocelyn Simms, John Wilks, Mara Adamitz Scrupe, Elisabeth Sennitt Clough, John Darley, Richard Law, E K Wall, John Gallas, David Smith, Al McClimens, Audrey Ardern-Jones, Anne M. Carson, Heather Combe, Eithne Cullen, Mary Rozmus-West, Sean Street, Ruth Calway, Aelred Down, Noel Williams, A C Clarke, Oonah V Joslin, Catherine Atherton, Philip Burton, Diane Cook, Matthew Friday, John Paul Davis, James Bell, Colin Honnor, Ananya S. Guha, Ralph Keats, Scott Thomas Outlar, Peter Rawlings, Jackie Gorman, Simon Perchik, J.D. DeHart, Neil Ellman, Gary Beck, Gareth Culshaw, John D Robinson,...