Banipal Magazine - Issue 25 Roy Fisher

Banipal Magazine - Issue 25 Roy FisherBanipal 25 opens with a tribute to the late poet Mohammed al Maghut whose death we learnt of as we were going to press. Little known in the West, al Maghut was almost a household name in the Arab world, the influence of his innovative and lyrical poetic style (in just three collections) on generations of Arab poets since the late 1960s having been phenomenal. We were sad also to announce the death on 14 March 2006 of the pioneering Iraqi author Mahdi

She is able to express strong emotions without being sentimental

Jalal Hakmaoui: Poem

the book showcases Callaghan's accomplished use of language

From Syria

always compelling…

Four villages - Great Amwell

enjoins the host and guests in the tea hut to treat each encounter as unprecedented and unrepeatable

The Netherlands in 1956

with selected works translated into French

The fact that [chef] Esther is also anorexic adds a contemporary twist

Eugenio Montale

If you are going to clone people