Milena, Milena, EcstaticHom Yun's meticulously ordered life of reading books and drinking coffee receives a jolt when a mysterious cultural foundation unexpectedly agrees to fund his film proposal: a blend of fiction and documentary, a tone poem constructed around a lyrical narrative, set around Scythian graves in the High Altai mountains. Desperate to be taken on as his assistant, the foundation's secretary follows him from their offices and begins a night of crossed wires,

is the feature Celebrating Adonis with testimonies by some of the world’s most eminent literary figures

Muriel Rukeyser

names and dancing

mothers to fathers

the red tape and the flexi hours

Banipal 41 – Celebrating Adonis is out now

The first of the following translations/adaptations of II

Peter Clark: Return to Childhood by Leila Abouzeid

Alun Brady was a bit of a mummy’s boy

the influence of his innovative and lyrical poetic style (in just three collections) on generations of Arab poets since the late 1960s having been phenomenal

near Paris

a diamond dress-ring with finger bones still attached