Inspired Notes: Poems of Tomas Tranströmer Sadiq al-Sayegh

Inspired Notes: Poems of Tomas Tranströmer Sadiq al-SayeghNews that the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature had been awarded to the Swedish poet Tomas Transtrmer was greeted with widespread approval by poets and poetry readers the world over. The author of fifteen collections of poems, Transtrmer had in fact been nominated for the prize every year since 1993, a sign of his huge standing and importance in world poetry, undiminished in recent years despite a stroke in 1990 that left him partially paralyzed and

Abdullah Taezi: Short story Lord of the Birds

Lamming reaches far beneath the surface of ethnic difference into the very heart of the processes of perception

this collection shows less reliance on humour than in his performances

from a suburban drive-in to the Rodin museum

at once tense and uncommon

As well as being widely published in the English speaking world

most recently A Tour of Your Country (2008)

000 Sunday Times Short Story Award 2012

Rose Scooler

Lebanese poets occupy an extremely important place in the Arab poetry scene

Chawki Bazih

From the trenches of the First World War came Wilfred Owen