Turner Samar Yazbek

Turner Samar YazbekDavid Dabydeens Turner is a long narrative poem written in response to JMW Turners celebrated painting Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead & Dying. Dabydeens poem focuses on what is hidden in Turners painting, the submerged head of the drowning African. In inventing a biography and the drowned mans unspoken desires, including the resisted temptation to fabricate an idyllic past, the poem brings into confrontation the wish for renewal and the

foster political affinities or keep up appearances

He is author of the hugely popular Seren titles Real Cardiff and Real Cardiff Two

Pyramid Texts by Gamal al-Ghitani translated by Humphrey Davies

The collection follows IRON’s highly successful anthology – also edited by James Knox Whittet

Electricity Comes to Cocoa Bottom takes the reader on a journey of light

about Thomas Mann and Stefan Zweig and Schnitzler and Hofmannsthal

Peter van de Kamp was born in The Hague

Richard Gwyn translates Nicanor Parra

Matt Bryden

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singing songs to the sea

June Jordan