Unknown Soldier Yusuf Abu Rayya

Unknown Soldier Yusuf Abu RayyaThe stimulus for these poems is a collection of photographs taken of the poet? s father, originally from colonial Sri Lanka, who was serving as a radio operator in an otherwise all white platoon in the 1939 45 desert war in North Africa. As for so many who came back from war to start or resume a family life, there was a great gulf of silence, an unwillingness to speak of those experiences. The collection begins and ends in an imaginative recreation of

’ writes Lorrie

For at the first glance of the glory of God in the East he worships him in his way

Sunshine is the powerful new collection from Next Generation Poet Melissa Lee-Houghton

soon turn against their own

his grandson

from sperm donation to gypsy magic

a reaching out for the meaning of human existence

Bonjour Mr Inshaw beautifully illustrates its ekphrastic encounters and allows us to reflect in turn on this contemporary example of the centuries-old dialogue between the arts of poetry and painting

The issue opens with an excerpt from Hassan Daoud’s novel Year of the Revolutionary New Bread-Making Machine

This collected edition commemorates the 10th anniversary of Julia Darling’s death

His essays and articles are collected in From the Sin-é Café to the Black Hills (University of Wisconsin Press)

First published almost fifteen years ago