Our Daily BreadOur Daily Bread charmingly weaves together the customs, rituals, anecdotes, legends and sayings that tell the story of bread, from Mesopotamia, through Egypt, to the Far East, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, and the New World. Matvejevi shows how bread is depicted in literature and art (with beautiful illustrations) and examines especially closely the role of bread in the major world religions, drawing from the Bible, Talmud and Quran, but also at

Heather Island and the anthology The Watchful Heart - A New Generation of Irish Poets

a travelogue of land and soul unravelling the complex carnage of our redacted histories

and defied expectations of what a West Indian musician could achieve in post-war Britain

his story – supreme success though it is – is also a grand example of fate at her most ungenerous

2012) and the novella Boris by the Sea (Octopus Books

He is Honorary Professor in the Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Warwick

His musical experiences stretch from seeing the Original Dixieland Jazz Band in 1919 to touring in East Germany with his Pieces of Eight in the 1980s

while poet and translator Khaled Mattawa writes about the books and authors that have had an influential impact on his life in the regular column LITERARY INFUENCES

poems in which the scholarly synthesises with the streetwise

Poetry Scotland and Poetry New Zealand

no engine can undo my grip

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