Tea with the Taliban Fred Marchant

Tea with the Taliban Fred MarchantOwen Gallaghers third collection of poems is a book about the warring tribes to which we all belong. This is a journey to dystopia: from the Gorbals in the 1950s to contemporary Palestine. The poems here examine the loyalties of family and friendship, the sectarian and ideological loyalties of religion, class and politics. Along the way we meet Emma Goldman, Trotsky and Shelley, and are shown glimpses of a distant workers republic where Robert Owen

Saleem Barakat: Excerpts from the novel The Crossing of the Flamingo

such as the political defeat of 18 April 1948

The collection includes the poem which voted Nasr into his laureate post – in the Netherlands the laureate is chosen by popular vote

Today Nick was sixteen

and has read his poetry in such distinguished locations as the Japanese American Museum

many parallel instances not only in the history of literature but of societies in general - as anyone who was young in 1968 and has survived into the age of Aids will be aware

written earlier this year At the Station of a Train which Fell Off the Map

his return to figure paintings and an extensive investigation of the folk resources of Caribbean art

old bricks in old walls

the woollens

Pedro Serrano

and his city”