Airborne Yusuf Abu Rayya

Airborne Yusuf Abu Rayya"What I like about Mark Granier's work is his sense of the edgy play in words themselves, together with his straightforward command of narrative happenings. In their lightness of lyric touch, these poems introduce a speaking imagination that's generous, quiet, keen eyed so, Dublin after a snow storm is "roofed in a silence deeper than Sunday", washing does "its line dance", and windmills (in a Rembrandt etching) go cartwheeling across the horizon. In

bring together Selvon's most focused attention to the choices Indians in the Caribbean must make between tradition and creolisation

Cheryl Follon

marred by austerity

frustration and despair are juxtaposed with yearning and tenderness in Barghouti’s powerful and evocative account of occupation

subtle meanings

the search for asylum

With fierce courage

What Is Poetry: Conversations with the American Avant Garde

Also fiction from major authors Fadhil al-Azzawi and Mekkawi Said

"The White Page/An Bhileog Bhán is beautifully produced

'the mucus of slugs'

Andy Croft has edited several collections for Five Leaves