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To the Man

  I was a songbird, one of the kind whose name I do not know, plain of plumage but with…

Basra 1958

  Three of them boarded the bus rifles pointed aggressively bayonets fixed and furious glinting brightly in the stippled morning…

In Search of Freedom

  I was in a taxi searching for her house, but was anxious; would she meet me, tell me her…

Mitad del Mundo

  The poem is in the form of a letter sent from Ecuador to a loved one, far away. Mitad…

Godhuli (Cowdust)

  Beyond the bend there were buffaloes, Cows and a single boy perched, Half-naked, on the back of a buffalo.…

Pushkar

The poor save up everything, even their ghosts. The little family of desert farmers descending the steps to the holy…

Paintscapes

  Maggi Hambling: Edge, Marlborough Fine Art, London, 1 March – 13 April 2017 One of this spring’s most rewarding…

The Sheer Fun of Power

  Odessa Stories, Isaac Babel, translated by Boris Dralyuk, Pushkin Press, October 2016, pp. 224, £12.00 (paperback) ‘Babel speaks in…

In A Raw State

Crude, Sally O’Reilly, Eros Press, October 2016, £12.00 (paperback) There are no talking telescreens or robot slaves in the fictive…

Disembodied

1. My body carved from abandoned bricks of a ruined temple, ————————————-from minaret-shards of an old mosque, from slate-remnants of…

Hardwrought Works

War Music, Christopher Logue, Faber, 2015, edited by Christopher Reid, 341pp £20 (hardback) Spills, Angela Leighton, Carcanet, 2016, 183pp, £12.99…

Reading to Percy Lubbock

  Percy Lubbock (1879-1965) was an English author, principally a literary critic, admired also in his lifetime for his fine…

Vanessa Can Stand Alone

Vanessa Bell (1879-1961), Dulwich Picture Gallery, until 4 June 2017 ‘Life apart from human beings was almost completely visual for…

My London by Navtej Sarna

  Navtej Sarna is an Indian writer and diplomat. He is presently India’s ambassador to the United States. This is…

Nyasi – Grass

  After monsoon rains When wind shivers Grass taller than my head undulates like snakes Waves invitingly to travellers To…

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