The Mermaid Chair Mostafa Nissabouri

The Mermaid Chair Mostafa Nissabouri"What is poetry? Flynns work is one place I might start my explanation. " David Kennedy, PN Review "Flynn has developed a poetic register that is admirable in its discipline and economy" Nicolas Tredell, London Review of Books "Tony Flynn possesses a rare combination of tact and directness in getting his politics into his poetryFlynn so consistently displays such sophistication and incisiveness while remaining infallibly accessible across a range that

Ezra Pound

Getting it Across has to do with translation in a very fundamental sense: getting yourself across

’ — The Bookseller

a volume of war writing (2007)

tanka are the classic lyric poems of Japanese literature

translated by Mark Leech

[Abdullah’s Secrets] by Habib Selmi

irony and intelligence

Banipal's Editor Samuel Shimon writes: "This is Banipal's 40th issue

James Kirkup introduces Mostafa Nissabouri A Metric of the Desert

lovers of Biggles

This collection is testament to the quiet heroism of the home front