The Zoo Father Sheila O'Hagan Lebanese Abbas Beydoun with an

Lebanese Abbas Beydoun with an excerpt from Blood Test

Josephine Balmer A Note on Reviewing Translation

The dark menace lurking in the best fairy tales is never far from the surface in most of these stories

Fadhil al-Azzawi – Burhan Abdullah’s Secret Chest An excerpt from The Last of the Angels

while he seeks solace in painting

The Zoo Father Sheila O'Hagan Lebanese Abbas Beydoun with anShortlisted for the 2001 T. S. Eliot Prize, this unique collection centres on a daughter's fraught relationship with her dying father, a man whose legacy to her was violence and abandonment. Rich in the imagery of the Amazonian jungle (fire ants, shaman masks, hummingbirds, shrunken heads, jaguars) these poems at once ward off and redeem the father through myriad transformations. In contrast, 'The Vineyard' series is inspired by the author's mother