The World is a WeddingBernard Kops autobiography of his early years in Londons East End through to his emergence as a major writer in Soho in the 1950s and his drug induced madness in the 1960s has been re issued. The best East end autobiography for many years. Kops allows life to flow over him, never losing his sense of sheer delight, in its size, its possibilities and its outrageousness. the Guardian 'Brutal, grim, factual, but the mind that interprets is unfailingly

These poems are spoken by many different voices - mothers

of the Inquisition's

Aviva Dautch

John Betjeman

Mohammed al-Ghozzi: Poems

- Celebrating ADONIS

all published by Seren

Aziz Chouaki An Excerpt from The Star of Algiers

Mona Zaki: Saleem Barakat's mezmerising world of language and metaphor

‘nâzim hikmet: on the ship to mars’

a young woman called Dagmar Petric tries to solve the mystery surrounding her journalist father’s premature death

whose Waiting for the Night Rowers won the Aldeburgh Prize