The Olcinium Trinity Kamal AbdellatifOlcinium, the Latin name for present day Ulcinj, is one of the oldest settlements on the Adriatic coast and ruled in turn by the Illyrians, Romans, Byzantines and Ottomans, as well as being an important Venetian port and a centre for the slave trade. It was also home to Fra Dolcino, a medieval heretic who announced the return of the Messiah and Sabbatai Zevi, a Renaissance cabalist who maintained that he was the Messiah and according to legend left
comes from the mountains to say that clouds
and of loving one’s neighbour without question – even when that neighbour is an addict
translated from the Finnish by Mike Horwood
that make it possible for us to be
Inua Ellams was poet in residence at the Poetry Library at the Southbank Centre in London
students and journalists - each struggling to be heard above the sound of gunfire and weeping
by Brian Arkins
and many others who hopefully soon will be
he has edited a number of books for publishers including Insomniac Press
along with poets Pearse Hutchinson
Novelist Wendy Robertson spent three years working with female prison inmates
The poems range across the violent geography of Palestine and Iraq to the bright landscapes of the American Southwest
