Heaven by Manuel Vilas Leonard Nolens called ‘Female Friendship is a

called ‘Female Friendship is a Very Complex Thing’

deeply humane and spiritually profound

and prismatic emotion

Guardian [on the third edition of Poems]

Heaven by Manuel Vilas Leonard Nolens called ‘Female Friendship is aManuel 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