The Sea Needs No OrnamentThe Sea Needs No Ornament El mar no necesita ornamento is the first bilingual anthology of contemporary poetry by women writers of the English and Spanish speaking Caribbean and its diasporas to be curated in more than two decades. The anthology presents a selection of work by poets from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and from various Anglophone Caribbean islands and the Diaspora. Each poem is presented first in the original, followed by

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Dedalus has published four collections of his poems

The Middleman is his first full-length collection

In this literary thriller David Belbin writes about originality

But we begin with tributes to the great writer Tayeb Salih

Sophia Parnok

s to say that the way we

essays and tributes in celebration of the extraordinary poetic achievements of Saadi Youssef (born 1934

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