Green Thani al-Suweidi

Green Thani al-SuweidiGreen, Patrick Moran's second collection of poetry, shows a poet trying to reconcile his rural heritage with an Ireland in the process of transition. In doing so, these carefully wraught poems explore the implications of leaving: the parting from loved ones; what is left to us; and the scraps we are left with. The title poem, 'Green', with its elegiac blend of wonder and loss, strikes a characteristic note. As he comes to terms with changing

For asking you to read the thing

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compiled by Samuel Shimon

Lebanese Abbas Beydoun with an excerpt from Blood Test

Spanish and Swedish

Banipal 42 focuses on the literature being written now in the United Arab Emirates

Nina Kossman

and one that deserves a ‘harmonious welcome’

and uncertainty in later experience

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Images are simple and memorable: 'the horse gallops/into the lungs of the wind'