I Will Not Fold These Maps S. B. Merrow

I Will Not Fold These Maps S. B. MerrowMona Kareem is a stateless poet, born in Kuwait, whose work has been internationally acclaimed for its power and immediacy ever since she published her first collection at the age of 14. This World Poet Series book, translated into English by the poet and translator Sara Elkamel, brings together poems from Kareems three collections as well as new, unpublished pieces. It centres on themes that recur frequently in Kareems poetry exile, estrangement,

Raymond Chandler is a

Through a series of joyful sparky vignettes

quite literally

marriage to the beautiful American

Also in this issue: exquisite translations of Jacques Tornay by Annie Freud

In this new collection of his poems

convicted of murder on a manufactured confession in 1983

there was widespread critical recognition that here was an outstandingly original new voice

” - Alan Jude Moore

Take My Word For It is a beautifully and frankly written record of a significant Jamaican life

The trouble is that we could say the same thing about living

‘Christina the Astonishing is strange