Papercuts Mary Costello Flight Paths (2011) is the

Flight Paths (2011) is the story of a Leeds girl’s rollercoaster journey from Bempton Cliffs to Flamborough on a midsummer’s day

and Girgis Shukry with down-to-earth images and tales to tell

Eskandar Habache and Khalid al-Maaly

translated by Justin Hill

Papercuts Mary Costello Flight Paths (2011) is thePapercuts includes poems from four previous collections (Perfect Mess, Speechless, Miming Silence and Loose Ends) alongside new work, spanning over twenty years. The collection is a testament to the human condition in all its moods, particularly melancholia; a precious state of mind. It shamelessly flirts with the absurdities of life familiar to us all, paying particular attention to the seeming trivial and incidental details that can speak so aptly.