Time Cleaves Itself Kathy PimlottIn Jeda Pearls debut poetry collection, Time Cleaves Itself, a disabled Scottish woman of colour invites you into the split and rewoven threads of her intersecting, in between worlds as she navigates belonging and claiming space. Landscapes and bodyscapes are brought into focus through lenses of race, illness, disability and womanhood. Ancestral languages of Scots, Patois, Geordie and English critique ableism, colonialism and Scottish exceptionalism;
Stranger at the Gate was originally published in 1956 by Faber and Faber
ultimately
“Buzzes with insight and imagination
where the elements of water and air meet and blend
and between spatial and ethical frames: “I live on a street where / people turn (on) each other / into a theory
Plenty — “before the fold” — the poems deal with family
from four poets who will visit the UK in July – Lukman Derky
nearly picked clean
The Bitter Roots is a largely autobiographical novel full of evocative details of a time and place
The title poem of The Mischievous Boy has been set to music by Derek Ball and is the subject of a stained glass window by Phyllis Burke
That our ecological future appears grave can no longer come as any surprise
In an in-depth interview renowned Egyptian author Sonallah Ibrahim talks about his writing
