Connecting Medium"Connecting Medium links the past to the present, the Caribbean to England, mothers to fathers. Here are poems about identity and culture, generations and the future. A powerful sequence of poems about a black Medusa. Poems that link the material world to the spiritual one. Poems that recreate a sixties childhood in South London in vivid detail. Connecting Medium is full of energy and life. Hers is a bright, passionate voice." Jackie Kay Dorothea

Second edition of this classic book with a new postscript and a fresh selection of photos

the Midway Atoll

which he adapted from his own published short story

from all over his empire

Paddy Bushe

it could be seen as an astringent critique of the top-down authoritarianism of nationalist politics

Hartmut Fähndrich on al-Koni The Desert – our Life

Sympathetic studies of character

a foul-mouthed old woman

with a bitter sadness

betrayal and a society diverted from its traditional values by consumerism

The issue opens with a major 70-page feature on the life and legacy of Mahmoud Darwish