Limestone Polly ClarkLimestone is the epic poem of Barbados and a major development in an indigenous Caribbean poetics. Drawing on the folk music of Tuk, Anthony Kellman invents his own forms of Tuk verse to write the story of his island from the destruction of the Amerindians to the present day. Part one uses both invented characters and actual historical persons such as Bussa and Nanny Grigg, the leaders of the 1816 slave revolt, to explore the epic of loss, survival
Ian McMillan in Poetry Review
as well as a prolific writer of short stories
The Jerusalem International Poets Festival
an arts and politics festival
translated by Marilyn Hacker
He has lived nearly half his life outside Iraq
ironic eye that he casts on his own country and is as concerned with character and the vagaries of relationships as he is with wider cultural concerns
As readers begin their journey into the works of 27 writers
Tough is the bitter-sweet taste of urban romanticism
Raouf Mousaad Basta Excerpt from his novel The Ostrich Egg [Baydhat al-Na’amah]
the victim of a strange and violent assassin
In Ali Smith's True Short Story the narrator hears two men talking about the difference between the novel and the short story
