From the River to the SeaThis new collection by Palestinian poet Samer Abu Hawwash was published in its original Arabic in the summer of 2024. The 24 poems are an intrepid literary journey into the genocide in Gaza, linking with Palestines long years of existential trauma, and documenting the universal human questions that so many are asking in todays world. Living, as he has done since being born in Lebanon in 1972, in a diaspora crowded with fellow Palestinians, the poet

and Chika Sagawa

a newfound love of running offers release and redemption

For sixthly he rolls upon wash

the West Bank and beyond

Anne Ridler and John Heath-Stubbs

wrapped around the forms of the silent film and the Gothic city ghost tour

when he found the calypso icon standing alone for a moment in the heat of Port of Spain’s Queen’s Park Savannah

Towns in Britain is an evocation and appreciation of our towns and cities and an evaluation of the changes which have shaped them over the last sixty years

Over 200 of his poems have since appeared in magazines like Poetry Review

loneliness and boredom – in Reception

Here six poets from Finland offer up a refreshing mix of narrative

he sometimes comes remarkably close to doing so and an unmistakable atmosphere of carpe diem permeates the whole framework as well as the individual stories of The Decameron