[...] Arthur Binard

[...] Arthur BinardResponding to the unspeakable in real time, Joudah offers multiple ways of seeing the world through a Palestinian lens. Fady Joudah is the author of six previous collections of poems: *The Earth in the Attic*; *Alight*; *Textu*, a book long sequence of short poems whose meter is based on cellphone character count; *Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance*; and, most recently, *Tethered to Stars*. He has translated several collections of poetry from

Rachel Coventry

not quite an autobiography

artists and authors alongside proverbs

and the effect that it had both on him and on the people from whom he was involuntarily retreating

darkly glittering collection

Vivid character portraits of Aunt Alice and Cousin Sidney sit next to tributes to poet predecessors

and endurance

these fluent poems weigh up whether leaving is a form of running from or coming back to home

and Elias Khoury

Patrick McGuinness has lived and worked in Oxford for thirty years and brings an intimate knowledge to this new exploration of the city

aging prize-fighters

context both of time and Trinidadian society