Notes of Your Music Haifa Bitar

Notes of Your Music Haifa BitarI have grown older and loved others, but I shall always carry some notes of your music in my pockets, like petals, wherever I go. In his fourth collection of sonnets bookended by two free form pieces James Nash sets out to celebrate what may be gone, or flag up what might be celebrated before it goes. From the simple music of the bottle bank (a favourite task), to the biggest questions of the human experience, the poet's gentle, perceptive gaze

Consequently

sarcophagus breaks

but they're really in trouble

Peter Finch is a poet

between Pakistan and the West

over the still-rigid ground

the International Brigades

and poetry as a political paradigm

Salmon Poetry)

When Raffiq’s girlfriend Amal also wants to move away

Amidst it all

Nuala Archer's first book of poetry