Eye of the Times Richard Zimler

Eye of the Times Richard ZimlerIt is generally accepted that Paul Celan is a notoriously difficult poet to understand, yet this small collection, with an introduction by a leading expert on Holocaust poetry, and with each of the ten poems accompanied by a brief note which acts as a contextual orientation for the reader, is an excellent starting point for anyone who is not familiar with his poems.

In one chapter

Are the various versions of himself lost with those who knew them

imaginative and creative Arabic work of literary merit published in the 35 years prior to submission of the translation

What ails you what fails you

followed by Tunisian author Khaled Najar

Jess is currently a member of the Roundhouse Poetry Collective and playwright-in-residence at DYSPLA

An unsparing evocation of a Catholic childhood in a country town in the late 1940s

the dreams of fish

androids and digital sentience

off the coast of Scotland

Travel writer Peter Mortimer reports on Shatila

But one day her friends Ana and Ilo ask her to join them on an adventure outside during another downpour