Radical Twenties: Writing, Politics and Culture Ali Mohammed Zayd

Radical Twenties: Writing, Politics and Culture Ali Mohammed Zayd'What is particularly valuable in this book is the attention Lucas gives to a number of texts from the 1920s that have had less attention than they deserve in literary critical accounts of the decade the dust jacket photograph of Nan Youngman in 1926 with cigarette and guitar, so wonderfully evocative of the spirit Lucas respects and consistently carries forward in his writing' MLR

that puts our lives on the map too

a chapter from a novel

Letters from Cairo by Pauline Kaldas

"A good translation suggests how the poet

lives in London where she has formed Exiled Writers Ink

The very first book in the world to be illustrated with photographs was produced in Reading between 1844 and 1846

• “The Bride of God”: erotic theology

Some of the poems from the 1960s and 70s come close to expressing a sense of weltschmerz (universal sorrow)… [Others] are poems of pity and terror

” – The Times

Ismith Khan was born in Trinidad in 1925

Elvin Jones

Daniel Weissbort introduces James Kirkup