Wings of a StrangerIn the continuing rite of return to his native Barbados from longer and longer away, something has happened for Tony Kellman. No longer are these the alienated poems of the long gap, of belonging nowhere. With greater establishment in America has come, on the wings of a stranger, the capacity to embrace this past and to see wholly afresh what was once familiar and unremarked. Parallel to these poems of place, are those that explore new love and its

If at the end of his life Boccaccio returned to the Dantesque vision of things (in his Life of Dante and commentary on the first seventeen cantos of the Divina Commedia)

whose limitations and inertia so frustrated him

The Granta Book of the African Short Story

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Larissa Szporluk

Terence Cave: A memorial note on Edith McMorran and a translation of Aragon’s ‘C’

” — Adrian Mitchell (the shadow poet laureate)

Pat Boran was born in Portlaoise

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