Not Just A Game: Sporting PoemsFrom the first length to the final frame, the egg and spoon race to the Cup Final, from Jack Hobbs to Brian Clough, from Centre Court to the Great North Run, Not Just a Game captures the tension and the laughter, the pain and the pleasure, and the blood, sweat and tears. As Jane Austen put it in Pride and Prejudice, For what do we live but to make sport? Not Just a Game is a unique archive of modern British sporting life angling, boxing, canoeing,

In astrology

of John Clare

several sonnets

in the classic tradition of Palestinian satire

at the same time

featuring a wrapped edition of this anthology for dog-lovers

Bekes Jr (Sherko Faiq)

an extensive Books in Brief section

And suddenly everything was quite different

Ghalia Kabbani A short story Dreams of a Well-Bred Girl

with Tayib Saleh by Talha Jibril

translated by Issa J Boullata