Liminal Paul Stephenson

Liminal Paul StephensonThere are nearly 70 million refugees on the planet today, civilians forcibly displaced from their homes by war, famine, poverty and climate change. Most of these have found sanctuary in neighbouring countries. A few have made desperate journeys from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and North Africa to Europe, where they have met the kindness of strangers as well as the anti immigrant rhetoric of opportunist and neo Fascist politicians. Liminal is an attempt

Anthology: The Poetry of Arab Women ed

Zuzana Kratka Wolves of the Crescent Moon by Youssef al-Mohaimeed

Ernesto Cardenal

6 of them with Salmon Poetry

Nasser al-Dhaheri

Where a choir of lissom cherubs is dancing

there are poems set in worlds as different as sharecropping Georgia and Yorkshire

start here: a colleague asked me what's been done on gay poetics and I can't think of anything better

His poetry is encamped in that border country where Raymond Williams also lived: pitched between attraction and repulsion

incorporates passages from Boccaccio's introductory description and imagines how the whole collection might have started

to see what it is that gives that particular form of words life

as if heaven had ears and eyes