Wu River Variations Format:Default Title

Wu River Variations Format:Default Title1935, China. The Long March hangs by a wire. What remains of the Communist forces make a frenzied retreat to escape their Nationalist pursuers. Trudging vast distances across the nation's fractured hinterland, the only thing preventing their annihilation is the Red Army's top secret codebreaking unit. Led by Chief Zeng, the primitive listening posts and ox bone abacuses of the 2nd Bureau are the sole tools at their disposal as they sift through a

and is now governing it ‘according to the laws of music’

mothers to fathers

Khalid Al-Maaly

The second in Five Leaves’ series of debut poetry pamphlets by

"One of the most tactful namers of the Holocaust but her poems of everyday disenchantment are deepened by a powerful bitterness

Idiosyncratic

I was so happy

Forgiveness

with poems written in Arabic

Surreal and playful

while our rapacious exploitation of planet Earth is treated in poems like ‘Down to Africa’ and ‘Lament’

Often insightful and occasionally unsettling