In the Belly of the Queen Mohamed Salah al-Azab

In the Belly of the Queen Mohamed Salah al-AzabAmal shocks the whole neighbourhood by beating up her classmate Younes. Her father defends her behaviour and encourages her to assert herself. From then on everyone avoids Amal and then her father leaves. Searching in vain for an explanation, Amal finds refuge with Younes and his mother Shahira, both outsiders like her. Years later, when the situation comes to a head and the conflict with Raffiqs gang escalates, Amal flees to Kurdistan to look for her

Stranger in the Mask of a Deer conjures an elemental

A lyrical narrative which re-imagines the renowned modernist pioneer Amrita Sher-Gil as a 1990s West London native

and a version of the simplest and most complicated love story of all: that between a mother and a daughter

One rainy spring day I was working on an initial translation from Tristia using the Perseus site’s on-line Latin dictionary

Sujata Bhatt was born in Ahmedabad

As the editor of the BBC Caribbean Voices programme (initiated by Una Marson) between 1946 and 1956

Poems that link the material world to the spiritual one

Two Little Ducks

These are poems which parents can read aloud to younger children

Hughes also includes an evocative group of photographs taken at dusk – ‘the dangerous time’ for troops in the war

like Jonah

Sidereal Time (1998) and The Book of Idiots (2012)