Writers on Islands Elias Farkouh

Writers on Islands Elias FarkouhSome of the countrys leading writers are captured in this unique anthology which celebrates the many and varied islands around our shores. Kathleen Jamie, Mervyn Peake, John Betjeman, Brendan Behan, Hugh MacDiarmid, Louis MacNeice, Geoffrey Grigson, W. B. Yeats, George Orwell, and Kathleen Raine are just a few of the 50 authors whose prose works evoke and record in a whole variety of ways, the culture, lives and essence of island life. The collection

continuity and loss

as well as short stories

Majid Addam From the poem On the Street

a poet at the court of a minor Welsh prince of the twelfth century

Predrag Finci comments on how many countries he has passed through

Larry Jaffe impacts audiences with a rich emotional range

an excerpt from a memoir

Children of the Water by Ibtihal Salem

I started looking up Russian words in the dictionary

translated by Radwa Ashour

Ruth Fainlight - who offers us new translations of the important Mexican poet Victor Manuel Mendiola

1897-1977) and of the personal