Separated from the SunA selection of poems by the Kurdish writer lhan Sami omak, imprisoned in Turkey since 1994. He was arrested when he was a student, tortured and charged with membership of the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party. The European Court of Human Rights has since ruled that omak's conviction was unlawful. He has twice appealed against his conviction; both appeals were unsuccessful. In prison he has published eight books of poetry and become one of Turkey's

with their cool realism

‘The best East-end autobiography for many years

takes him through layers of reality and towards refuge of an unexpected kind

meet in his latest work to form a poetry as poignant as it is celebratory

It was offered as a celebration of the place-based sensitivity of the museum architecture and its awareness

and the Medical Humanities

Organized into three sections

poems and short stories

Underlying these poems is an intense mystical vision that lifts the dark material of the subject matter above the merely personal

All that is left to him are regrets of a growing sense of futility and helplessness and the irritations of his feckless son and shrewish daughter-in-law

Milton Row – a poetic insight into teaching in the impoverished areas of post-war London – was written by Robert John Newlands

The book moves in a roughly chronological way from here