Tin Drum Country Ben Jelloun

Tin Drum Country Ben Jelloun"In this collection Sabine Wichert subtly roots her adopted town of Belfast into her own background: her inheritance of 'The burning cities of Europe'. The poems span a lifetime of family, friends, and her own girlhood formed by the turmoil of 20th Century Europe. The image of rootedness is also present in her relationship to the Irish countryside: "Some to rescue only these roots". This collection is long overdue. Ms Wichert has been published

and what had been my family’s culture – though it was music

to flutter round the lamp

The urgency underlying these quiet poems reveals how the eye and imagination can

Nikolay Gumilyov

Griffri and Sidereal Time

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Mona Zaki: Saleem Barakat's mezmerising world of language and metaphor

Apollinaire

she published a collection of short stories

Snowfire (Salmon

Flooded with warmth and humanity

Each presents a character whose obsessions and attachments become magnified through chance encounters