Lawrence’s MuseHaggs Farm, the surrounding landscape and the Chambers family, especially Jessie, provided the models for much of D. H. Lawrence's early writing. This relationship and the influence on Lawrence are explored in the companion volume, Miriams Farm. This publication illustrates the range of Jessie Chambers' own talents and interests as writer, artist, correspondent and pacifist through her letters, sketches and stories, along with assessments of her

Full of lively and reflective poems

it also includes a number of coming-of-age poems

• Developing intercultural dialogue is Banipal’s mission and Banipal 41 starts a new regular Guest Literature feature

what is describable

thematic variety

contemporary reworking of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic The Secret Garden

the term ‘womanist’ was invented to describe Opal Palmer Adisa’s work

Samuel Shimon interviews the Tunisian author

freedom and love

keeping his pitiless observations about their lives to himself

is intrinsically an act of opposition to the ruling packs of lies

written between 1991 and 2007 that he translated himself