Sun and moonlight scattered in furrows, only red clay remembers turning blade of plough while iron soon forgets…

    12 February, 1554 In the silence of winter Lady Jane Grey, brittle as a stalk of fern. Rime…

  Poetry Prize 2016 judges Andrew McMillan and Rebecca Perry on ‘Kira’: Shocking, bold and tender in equal measure, ‘Kira’…

    Selina Nwulu was Young Poet Laureate for London 2015-16. This is the 18th article in our regular series “My…

    The Verandah Poems, Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze, Bloodaxe, 2016, £9.95 (paperback) Selected Poems, Michael Symmons Roberts, Cape 2016, £14…

  Wars do not have holidays (employers claim they are self-employed) Their job has to be fulfilled, At any cost,…

  Into That Heaven of Freedom, Mohamed Keshavjee, Mawenzi House/TSAR Publishers, 2015, 312pp, £35 (hardback) Indians were in Africa long…

    ‘He deserves to be hanged,’ Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society ‘He is a person without…

  Poetry Prize 2016 judges Andrew McMillan and Rebecca Perry on ‘The Truth About Figs’: It would be easy to…

  The Love of Strangers: What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen’s London, Nile Green, Princeton University Press, 2015, 416pp,…

    ‘Zenga! Zenga!’ The Arab teachers were shouting when I arrived. They were gathered around a screen, reading about…

  Gabriel coming down the mountain, Gabriel with his face like wax. Sound of his wings, what does he bring?…

  Messages from a Lost World, Stefan Zweig, translated by Will Stone, Pushkin Press, 2016, 224pp, (hardback) The Storyteller: Tales…

    Red kites, native to Turkey, Morocco, and parts of Europe, were declared ‘vermin’ by the English crown and…

    I watch them for a long while, the pair rising and courting the field in daylight, the strange…

  So, I turned to lens cutting for a living. Corrective work, in a time of short- sightedness. ————–An astigmatic…

    My father always seemed to know the moment I was walking up the driveway. It was a gift…

    No milk or lemon, ——love black tea from Amman, ——India. At sea- level, ragged ——monsoons ghost inland, ——millennium…