Nothing Out of this World Emma HammondCuba has always attracted the passionate sympathies of poets and revolutionaries. Cuba, my love, they put you on the rack, wrote Pablo Neruda in Canto General, cut your face, pried open your legs of pale gold, crushed your pomegranate sex, stabbed you with knives, dismembered you, burned you. Ernesto Che Guevara was a poet. The countrys national poets, Jose Mart and Nicols Guilln were also revolutionaries. After the fall of Batista, poets like
translated by Elzbieta Wjcik-Leese
but thereafter much of his fiction has focused on the lives of West Indians in Canada
Stephen Watts
Through this startling variety of poems in a range of forms from blank verse to free verse to "shaped" poetry runs a steady concern with what it's like to find and lose
that subtle sense the hairline has
Ibrahim Issa and Hussein al-Wad
The Sky Road
These poems move in various registers
The award was a tribute to the memory of Yaşar Nabi
of a young life snuffed out by racism
THE INTERVIEW WITH AN EDITOR is with Stefan Weidner of the Goethe Institute’s Fikrun wa Fann magazine
A journey through North Yorkshire in poems and film
