The Arches Colette BryceTwenty five surreal collages by John Digby, set in an ornate arch from the Alhambra, suggest a multiplicity of narratives and provide provocative starting points for poet Tony Curtis. Giraffes in slings, a toppling Statue of Liberty, woolly mammoths, an enthroned bull, a monster pear and giant apple, flying fishes, a crazed Noah all are among the many intriguing images to which the poet has responded in The Arches. Like the collages, his poems may ask
each distinct for reasons too intricate to be unravelled here
Gillian Clarke
Italian and English
A cross between Kafka and Mary Poppins - Clara Bow meets Charlie Chaplin by way of Gogol - The Sleepwalkers’ Ball is filmic
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at the height of the Intifada
Michel Moushabeck of Interlink Publishing
and the fascinating cloak-and-dagger plots to defy the Musicians' Union ban
illuminating their characters and qualities
translated by Patrick Drysdale and Mike Lyons
Midnight and Other Poems is the first full-length poetry collection to be published in the UK by this remarkable Palestinian writer
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