Notes of Your Music Mansoura Ezeldin

Notes of Your Music Mansoura EzeldinI have grown older and loved others, but I shall always carry some notes of your music in my pockets, like petals, wherever I go. In his fourth collection of sonnets (and more), veteran Northern poet James Nash sets out to celebrate what may be gone, or flag up what might be celebrated before it goes. Presented here in a gorgeous, illustrated hardback edition, this is a superb gift for lovers of verse and music alike. James Nash illuminates,

qualities of air

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Khaled Mattawa: Poem Dark Anthem

it’s a hotbed of lust and resentment

the reign of King Arthur

prophetic owls and stalwart horses live alongside the human characters as guides

Ibrahim Issa and Hussein al-Wad

Ian McMillan

the arms trade and the government

And the lilac shall blossom… I shall sing your eyes

it was left in the hands of Caribbean editors (including Mittelholzer and V

Barbara ‘Bunny’ Rabbett dispenses pork pies and sage advice