Slow Burner Saif al-Rahbi

Slow Burner Saif al-RahbiFiona Sinclair's new collection looks at some of the slow processes that shape and reshape our lives. In the first half she explores the slow burning fuse of love and desire in middle age new lovers and old habits, first dates and second chances, her 'Canterbury amble' alongside his 'south London strut', her 'Guardian sensibilities' against his 'wind up' opinions from the Sun. The second half of the book records the slow burning anxiety of living with

and currently resides in Wellington where she tutors in creative writing part-time

a Phonograph and Times

and he kissed my hand before he left

He is a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and a FRSA

poems about bats

In this feature

Mohammed al-Arishiya

[The Land Border] by Maysalun Hadi

through the volume's mid-point - a short prose piece called 'When Fictions Are Facts'

Lamia Makaddam: Three Poems

Some do it with a bitter look

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