Algaravias: Echo Chamber Colin ChannerThe fifth and most critically acclaimed volume of poetry by Syrian Brazilian poet Waly Salomo (1943 2003), Algaravias: Echo Chamber takes its title from an entangled history, referenced in an etymological epigraph: From al garb, the West; that language of the Arabs considered corrupted, little understood by the Spanish. Also a name of a plant, given that name for the messiness of its branches. Its ruminations on passage, self placement, virtual
Alaa al-Aswany Two short stories
and was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation
coupled with the general movement for ‘disability’ rights
and his poems have appeared in Orbis and The Rialto
A cross between Kafka and Mary Poppins - Clara Bow meets Charlie Chaplin by way of Gogol - The Sleepwalkers’ Ball is filmic
The issue opens with the debut novel of Amjad Nasser
as are the poet’s physical surroundings
all the while watched over by the kaleidoscope eyes of The Ringmaster’s Apprentice
excerpts from Hollie McNish’s motherhood diary
Sophia is forced to return to her childhood home in the former German Democratic Republic
because the process of reading is also the process of translation
This collection is testament to the quiet heroism of the home front
