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The death of children – Arabic 1
A translation of Richard Berengarten’s poem ‘The death of children’
by Fareeda Haadad
The death of children – Arabic 1
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The death of children – Arabic 2
A translation of Richard Berengarten’s poem ‘The death of children’
by Sherif Mohamed
The death of children – Arabic 2
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To The Welsh Critic Who Doesn’t Find Me Identifiably Indian - Arundhati Subramaniam
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The death of children - Richard Berengarten
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The Battle of Maryville - Joelle Taylor
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Sharon Olds
B. 1942
Sharon Olds was born in San Francisco in 1942. She studied at Stanford University and received her PhD from Columbia University, where she wrote a thesis on Ralph Waldo Emerson. She has published twelve books of poems, including Satan Says (1980), The Father (1992), Stag’s Leap (2012), Odes (2016)…
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Anna Crowe
B. 1945
Anna Crowe is a poet and translator based in St Andrews, Fife. Born in Plymouth, which in interview she says is “as far from Scotland as one can get in the UK,” Crowe moved to St Andrews to study and…
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Tanya Shirley
B. 1976
Tanya Shirley is a startlingly bold writer with a particular gift for highlighting the telling detail in her vivid and arresting poems, which variously contain portraits of lovers, colourful eccentrics and family snapshots that capture the elusive magic of childhood…
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Imtiaz Dharker
B. 1954
Born in Pakistan and brought up in Scotland, Imtiaz Dharker is a poet, artist and documentary film-maker who divides her time between London and India. This mixed heritage and itinerant lifestyle is at the heart of her writing: questioning, imagistic…
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Matthew Sweeney
B. 1952 D. 2018
“Matthew Sweeney is a force for good in British poetry,” wrote Ruth Padel. “The work is one large metaphor: a parable for the human condition…He was one of our finest poets of the unconscious; of darkness brought to light….” A…