Red: Contemporary Black British Poetry Nazih Abu Afash

Red: Contemporary Black British Poetry Nazih Abu AfashRed is a powerful new anthology of work by Black British poets. "Perhaps the most significant thing to be said about Red is that the poets in this volume burst through any constraining label with writing that throbs and pulses and seeps and flows." Margaret Busby Red collects poems that engage 'red', poems by Black British poets writing with the word 'red' in mindas a kind of leap off point, a context, a germthe way something small, minor, or grand

Our cover artist is the well-known Egyptian painter (and translator from Italian) Adel El Siwi

Sometimes it is linked with sensuality and sexuality

“A script put together by Franz Kafka

and took them back indoors

and finds areas of common influence among these various distinctive writers

the London-based Lebanese co-founder of Al Saqi Books

protocols and strategies turned loose from all rational context

Hayet Raies from Tunisia

through the New Orleans pianist Ellis Marsalis

including the prestigious SeaCat National Poetry Award

In addition to writing poetry he has translated poets from Sweden

The novel also has its subtext an inquiry into the meaningfulness of a Hindu worldview as a way of making sense of the catastrophes the characters experience