Banipal Magazine - Issue 33 William M Hutchins

Banipal Magazine - Issue 33 William M HutchinsBanipal 33 Autumn Winter 2008 Let us go, you and I, on two paths: You, to a second life, promised to you by language in a reader who might survive the fall of a comet on earth. I, to a rendezvous I postponed more than once, with a death I promised a glass of red wine in a poem. Mahmoud Darwish The issue opens with a major 70 page feature on the life and legacy of Mahmoud Darwish. It includes articles, tributes, poems and many photographs of the great

and can be fantastic or grotesque

Gill McEvoy

But love is more fundamental to the Socialist spirit than any other single factor

providing a thoughtful take on what it means to be alive and how suffering can control and overwhelm you

Cause Commune

When she kisses Glynn on a night out

He hugged me and maintained a silent gaze

but the combination of verse and visual is

with excerpts from his work Beirut shi Mahal [Beirut

James Howarth The Bleeding of the Stone by Ibrahim al-Koni

and how much practice does he need before he achieves his goal

as city poet of Antwerp in 2005 his appearances were attended like pop concerts