is, thinks Pearl Ollie Charles

is, thinks Pearl Ollie CharlesStep into Pearls world and take a tour around her faded seaside town, past the graffiti walls, bus stops and the old mattress factory. Except with Pearl as our guide the colours suddenly pop and every tiny detail becomes rich with interest. From the lido to the hair salon, to the Christmas shop in June, the ordinary becomes magical and every bit of wildness, weirdness and tattiness is whisked into the foreground. "Pearl" is an alter ego of the poet:

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Mahmood Abdel Wahab – Two Short Stories

Niyati Keni

A frequent collaborator with Kwame Dawes

By 1944 he had written two collections of poems and one of short stories

with its random shout

this early novel is in part structured as a play: the dramatis personae include the various relatives

but they are based on the real world of psychiatry and maximum security institutions

While the years pass

There are many Easts in the East and many Wests in the West

perennially untidy