Birds of Nabaa Paul Becker

Birds of Nabaa Paul BeckerBirds of Nabaa follows the physical and spiritual journeys of its narrator from his beginnings in a remote Mauritanian village, whose flocks lead the community according to their own inscrutable instincts, to life in Madrid, the Gulf states and Guinea, where his work as an embassy accountant takes him. Inspired by the Sahara of his childhood and devoted from an early age to the vagabond life of the pre Islamic poets, his constant life on the move in

Algaravias: Echo Chamber takes its title from an entangled history

They aim to capture what is going on around us

a volunteer with the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War

An Absent look by Mercè Sarrias and Re-Call by Araceli Bruch with an academic introduction and the transcript of a round table on and about them

scrape with ovarian cancer

Edinburgh emerges from its past to become the intellectual

translucent images” which give us “fresh access to reality”

leaving their bodies to shift on earth a while longer

The Oranges of Revolution is a book about democracy and power

In poems that are at once formally alert and alive to the possibilities of new departure

politics and pornography

Unsuited to the English tongue