Passages Sumita ChakrabortyA book of voices, landscapes and seasons, Ann Quins newly republished novel mirrors the multiplicity of meanings of the very word passage of music, of time, and of life itself. A woman, accompanied by her lover, searches for her lost brother, who may have been a revolutionary, and who may have been tortured, imprisoned or killed. Roving through a Mediterranean landscape, they live out their entangled existences, reluctant to give up, afraid of the
even something called a gastric brooding frog
She is often invited to take part in international arts and literary festivals and her work
the rise of consumerism and the
The Skelligs
The book (aimed at 9+) features a range of poems and even a few prose pieces inspired by myths and monsters that will get young people familiar with the great iconic myths such as Icarus and Pandora’s Box as well as introduce them to some less well known delights like Ginny Green Teeth and Terrainiac the Rain God
on Walcott
Samar Yazbek Excerpt from Salsal [Clay]
how language is the register in time of our answerability to each other
Mimi Khalvati
and a rich file of diverse short stories – by Salwa Bakr and Sahar Tawfiq from Egypt
Nosebleeds is an exploration of expression
Alison Brackenbury
