Look Again Amerah Saleh

Look Again Amerah Saleh'I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!' George Eliot We all want to be in on a secret, to have some subtle inside knowledge that gives us mastery over a subject. Its the root of conspiracy theories, espionage and even honest translation. Just as we look for faces in everyday objects, even if the original author hasnt planted a message in their work for someone to find, chances are well spot one anyway.

selected by Robert Creeley

by a mother who has left and a father who was left behind

Jalil al-Qaisi – A Short Story Zulaikha

the Dime (2005) and The Lakes of Coma (2003)

Instead they faced prejudice

only to find it shut

or curious about

He moves from the subtle colours of this bird-filled landscape to intense scenes of hardship: a homeless Ethiopian laments the family he has lost to famine and typhus

start here: a colleague asked me what's been done on gay poetics and I can't think of anything better

he had put it above the u

Here is living proof of how literature

With A Portable Paradise