The Bramble KingThe Bramble King is full of darkly resonant tales, ingenious parables, curiously haunted rooms and palaces and beautifully observed images of the natural world. A prolific, popular and prize winning author of fantasy fiction for children, Fisher began her writing career as a poet and now returns to poetry with her first collection since 1999. This collection includes poems on imaginary planets and princes, on the summer solstice, on drawing, on a

A Female Scene is published in conjunction with the Anglo-Catalan Society

with review by Stephen Watts of Arabian Love Poems

Born in 1972

the first systematically organised library in the ancient Middle East

In it poet Anne-Marie Fyfe visits the meeting place of land and sea

Together these tales crate the highly original atmosphere that Drndić is famous for in all her works

Amal AL-Jabouri

Liam Hogan

Beirut – Some Place

Classrooms of Resistance

Knute Skinner embarked on an extraordinary poetic project

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