Banipal 36 – Literature in Yemen TodayBanipal 36 Literature in Yemen today is published just as this years Frankfurt Book Fair begins, and not long after the Berlin International Literature Festival, which had its international focus on the Arab world an ideal time to introduce the rich and diverse fiction and poetry that is being written in Yemen. This major feature (160 pages) presents a rich selection of novel excerpts, short stories and poetry from 17 of todays Yemeni authors, most of

Sawiris Fiction Prizes for Egyptian Literature

weaving in and out her themes of love failed

• Robin Fulton on Robin Robertson’s Tranströmer

translated by Jason Walford Davies

Michael Foley

Dances with Vowels brings together poems from twenty-three of the many small-press chapbooks Cadwallender has published since 1984

Punch drunk with day-trippers

Goode recorded with Django Reinhardt

it must be stressed that this is an important book covering many topics

Deryn Rees-Jones and Anne Stevenson

media-centred London but the working-class community of his childhood in the Forest of Dean

trapped and frustrated by society’s traditional ways