Laura is a Wakefield poet aged 18 and is currently an English Literature student. She has twice been awarded a commendation as a Foyle Young Poet of the Year and Young Writer (an International English language poetry competition for under…
Muhammad Shanazar was born into a poverty stricken family in a village of Sub Division Gujarkhan District, Rawalpindi, Pakistan on 25th November, 1960. As a child he collected fodder and fire wood, grazed cattle and ploughed the farms. He lived…
Peter Russell: an English poet in Pian di Scò, Tuscany Peter Irwin Russell is considered one of the greatest poets of the 20th century and the last of great modern poets. He was born in Bristol, England, on 16 September…
MARIO NICOLAO And I hear my secret sea flood in, my hushed inner sea (‘Cicadas’, FL 171) a Homage to Agnostos Nomolos The Mediterranean contains many ghosts under the ceaseless to-ing and fro-ing of its green-blue waves. The ghost of…
This left hand of mine now packing this page with script and this right hand steadying the same page’s edge together reach out to your hands that hold and turn the same copy in another time entirely your own or…
Fahredin Shehu was born in Rahovec, in southeastern Kosova, in 1972 and graduated from Prishtina University in Oriental Studies. He actively works on Calligraphy, discovering new mediums and techniques for this specific form of plastic art. In the last ten…
MÜESSER YENİAY When we look back at Turkish women’s poetry of the Ottoman period, we also read an historical process. In Ottoman times, as it is known, women were not in the social arena at all. They could not be…
