A Friend's Kitchen Ruth Fainlight

A Friend's Kitchen Ruth FainlightAl Saddiq Al Raddi is one of the leading African poets writing in Arabic today. Born in Khartoum, Sudan, he has lived in exile in London since 2012. The poems in this World Poet Series book emerged in the aftermath of Al Raddis arrival, when he was separated from his wife and children for nearly five years. During late, uncertain nights awake in a strange city, he would write brief, mystical, often stream of consciousness texts to post on Facebook,

and grasping at something ‘beyond our squeaky comprehension’

the loss of friends and loved ones

Tom Sastry's debut collection of poetry

Georges locates in the negative space of aftermath both the ghosts of history

with this as a scaffold she charts how medical

David Hare

etc – means that many believe that the recent past is a normal to which we must not return

Why did so many working-class communities like his support Brexit so strongly

The authors hail from Egypt

poets and characters speak directly to the readers

"[Llwyd] Owen

the pain and the pleasure