Daytime Astronomy Harry Martinson

Daytime Astronomy Harry MartinsonEight years in the making, the poems in Daytime Astronomy were, like the rest of us, born in the heart of a dying star. They span places as far afield as Belfast, Dublin, Glasgow, Moscow, Phnom Penh and Shanghai, and all the liminal spaces in between. The poems explore time and space, pain and abandoned love, faced with a hill to climb to catch the world home. Paul Grattan was born in Glasgow in 1971. He moved to the north of Ireland in 1995, and

luxuriant meditations the shimmering essence of a Corfu summer

Translated by Allen Prowle

He presents anarchism as a natural response of ordinary people to the problems presented by the society into which they are born

expressions of feeling

the protector

Where a choir of lissom cherubs is dancing

from mainstream publishers to the smaller presses – sympathetic

using his rubber stamps and linocuts

including himself

Fuad al-Takarli

Leila Marouane: Excerpt from the novel The Abductor

Luay Hamza Abbas Two short stories Closing his Eyes and A Much-travelled Man