The Thorn of Your NameVctor Tern has been described as the most 'personal' poet of the Zapotec Isthmus of Oaxaca, Mexico. His poems, highly lyrical and imagistic, explore two deep passions: the electricity that passes between bodies in love, and Tern's fierce devotion to the Indigenous land and language of his birth. This carefully curated selection of poems, drawing from the whole of Terns poetic oeuvre, is translated into English by his long time translator and

Romiosini was later set to music by Mikis Theodorakis

who evaded the law in part because of a popular ambivalence about crime

Helen Quah

When she kisses Glynn on a night out

the well-known Iraqi author Jalil al-Qaisi is remembered by Fadhil al-Azzawi

or wants to be her

fashion disasters and looking like Velma Dinkley

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Richard’s headstrong fourteen-year-old sister

Markham worked in the theatre

craft and cadence add to the gathering music from poem to poem with—to use a beautiful phrase from the book

Tatyana Bek