The Minnow Would Be Lost Rafik Schami

The Minnow Would Be Lost Rafik SchamiStarting on Gilligan's island, with Aristotle clapping the 'fearless crew' 'in front of a live studio audience and from deep within it', Nora Chassler's book length poem The Minnow Would Be Lost is a deeply imaginative, lyrical and personal journey through the lives of the author (inner, outer and otherwise), from Chicago to New York City, to Edinburgh, Prague, Moscow and beyond, to the edges of reality and the limits of the human experience. Epic in

Her often cheerful and entertaining writing is threaded

national identity and

Mai Ghoussoub – a Tribute

chapters from Hamdy el-Gazzar’s novel Sehrun Aswad [Black Magic]

Editor Tony Curtis (poet and a respected art critic) has brought together experts whose subtle and accessible essays extend further our appreciation of what continues to be a mainstay of our literary and artistic canon

Many are well-known in Yemen and the Arab world

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an immense improvisational flair and an unfailing capacity to swing

The poems tell multiple narratives whilst retaining the freedom of abstraction

100 species of bats throughout the world

Peter Robinson on John James