The Debutante and Other Stories Alice Johnson

The Debutante and Other Stories Alice Johnson"Leonora Carrington has unswervingly followed the intensity of her own particular vision and way of being . . . Her work bristles with a fierce, unconventional brand of feminism; anger gives it its final edge of irony and power." Angela Carter "Leonora Carrington is a true one off, but she has a place in that bright constellation of absurdists, fabulists and dream voyagers, alongside Artaud and Lewis Carroll, Firbank and Gertrude Stein, Angela Carter

between routes and roots

It's a thrill to see the classic sonnet

an old Indian cow-minder

Zuzana Kratka Le roman arabe by Kadhim Jihad Hassan

poets from all participating countries will be invited to London and MPT will publish a selection of translations of their poems

rose conserve and drops of divine liqueur

This is a starkly brutal novel full of Mais’s prophetic rage that for the poor and black little had changed since slavery

but the moment I turned he dissolved

Elias Khoury: Excerpt from the novel Bab al-Shams

Independent on Sunday

Roger Allen and Yang Lian

and served in Tripoli