A Boat to Lesbos Sigurður Pálsson

A Boat to Lesbos Sigurður PálssonShortlisted for the inaugural Sarah Maguire Prize for Poetry in Translation A Boat to Lesbos is a powerful and compelling epic poem, written while thousands of Syrian refugees were enduring frightening journeys across the Mediterranean before arriving on the small island. Set out like a Greek tragedy, it is passionate and dramatic witness to the horrors and ravages suffered by Syrian families forced to flee their destroyed country, seen through the

An excellent narrative

but also celebratory

2007 Rhys Davies Short Story Competition

These poems immerse readers in an enriching

A Taste of Honey and This Sporting Life

‘Spring 1946’

but that the whole of Walcott’s work

hallucination

Lea Goldberg’s exquisite sequence ‘Songs of Spain’

‘We Broke Up’

Jana Fawaz Elhassan

The wine’s long flame