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.

An Eschatological Bestiary admits to different foci. Recording descriptions of natural history and popular accounts of climate change and inequality, its faunal composition offers symbolic visions, modern protest, and a complete exegetical interpretation of the dramatic rise of an apparently semi-permanent moral blank. Among its prime concerns and other sediments of stories are power relations and future events, their primary goal being to render the Big System unstable at a local level. To this end, words cut out of other sources serve to embody allegorical versions of imaginary animals in...