‘The central achievement of Doom Painting is not to show how the past has shaped us (an obvious enough move for any historical novelist), but rather to emphasise how far the present lives within the past.’
Joseph Williams reviews Doom Painting.
I Remind Myself by Jane Hirshfield
‘Everywhere beings who worry, who notice birthdays, who war. / And still, existence’s single dice-throw – / the wish to go on, over not.’
Poetry by Jane Hirshfield.
Puking Abadan: Dylan Thomas in Iran by Kasra Lang
‘Thomas spends much of his letters from Iran begging his wife to forgive his various infidelities. What’s sometimes lost in this personal story is that he had arrived in Iran at an extraordinary time, a period of high intrigue not only in the country’s history but in the wider drama of the twentieth century.’
Kasra Lang on Dylan Thomas’s 1951 trip to Iran.
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