Zen CymruZen Cymru is the new collection of poems by that master of modern angst, Peter Finch. Not one for quiet meditations, this voice is: loud, bewildered, satirical, furious, sad, fearful and funny. This is a Wales that missed its revolution in 'I Chew Gum and Think of Rifles'. This is a Wales beset by: rain, the ghosts of hard drinking poets, of holy wells guarded by heifers, of sports crowds, Ikea, sheep, 'enormous storm clouds', and the 'Entry of Christ

a ghost orchid

Pyramid Texts by Gamal al-Ghitani translated by Humphrey Davies

Last Page: Najwa Binshatwan - Letter from Benghazi

Shaker Noori

Robert Harris – author of Fatherland

Ahmed Rashid Thani – Selected Poems

Personal and public

life in Yemen today

Annika Scheffel – 'Pretty Big'

letterboxes and

as city poet of Antwerp in 2005 his appearances were attended like pop concerts

The Blue Cat is a courteous