Seduce Golnoosh Nour

Seduce Golnoosh NourThe word has gone out that Seduce is dead, and the mourners gather on Church Island in the Caribbean for her wake. All bring their own memories of Seduce: her daughter Glory prays for the rescue of her mothers soul, but there are also those who have come to make sure that dutty filthy woman has finally ceased to be a temptress to the islands husbands. Her grandchildren, too, both in their different ways marked by growing up in such a conflicted

Stephen Watts Here and There: a Selection of Poems by Basim Furat

What I love about John Corless's poetry is that instead of pretending to sit po-faced on the summit of Mount Parnassus

"The power of these poems isn't to be underestimated: their apparent simplicity arises from well-digested experience and a habit of accurate observation

traditions and metamorphoses of a people proud of past achievements and apprehensive of future prospects

he is Associate Editor of Tears in the Fence

Hala Mohammad – Poems from As if I’m knocking on my door

Who gets to decide the canon

translated by Charles Cantalupo

Vénus Khoury-Ghata

Jessie Lendennie's prose poem Daughter was first published in 1988

Irish Literary Supplement

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