Things to Say Karen MaitlandA modern poet who, something of a rarity, talks about class and politics as well as love and art, John Lucas craft has been developed over the past five decades. John Lucas ninth full collection of poetry begins with a long poem echoing Audens 'Letter to Lord Byron', and discusses love, art, politics, social class and the industrial midlands. He then moves on to wars, ancient and modern, concluding with Lucas alter ego, Thorn Gruin, moaning pitifully
and for whom there is no compassion
Granny Albyn’s Complaint is a love-letter to the city where David Betteridge has spent the best part of his life
illustrations which inaugurate a world of new possibilities in combining verbal and visual forms of expression and which are reproduced in colour for the first time
Hank Jones
Shakir al-Samawi
nuclear power
Excerpt from his trilogy with appreciation by translator Adnan Haydar
Insofar as he describes the people as geese
and The Shape of the Grave have been produced many times across the United States
Laila al-Juhni: “Jeddah is Sinking” – an excerpt from The Waste Paradise
artist Antun Fiskovic experiences a sea-change in his fortunes following the dramatic revelation of the identity of his real parents
Four poems
