Banipal 65 – The Beautiful Creatures of Fadhil Al-AzzawiBanipal 65 The Beautiful Creatures of Fadhil Al Azzawi celebrates the iconic Iraq novelist and poet, renowned for his innovation and originality, his conceptual leaps, rich references and linguistic surprises, who has lived in exile in Germany since the early 1970s. Ariel Dorfman described him as an Iraqi master poet who opens up all the despair and tenderness of our times. PLUS excellent fiction: Lost in Mecca by Kuwaiti author Bothayna Al Essa; from

Fatima Bhutto

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she has published seven collections of poetry with Carcanet Press

to name a few - the poems

These poets write from their oral tradition and folklore

The combination of poets of different generations in this anthology is particularly apt in that it reflects the Galician preference for literary collaboration

alongside poems

the present-day journalist hurled back in time by some mysterious process for just long enough to allow us a wonderful glimpse into a remote

extinguishing and kindling

first dates and second chances

The thing before you is not you

might also help us examine our thoughts and ways of behaving