ALLIn Robert Powells wonderful new collection we have poems of wisdom and insight, poems which combine lambent descriptions of time and place, of a natural and a spiritual world, all haunted by a younger self. Powells ability to understand and convey the messiness, tragedies and beauties of life, demonstrate what a very fine poet he is. Full of startling observations, these are the thoughts and perceptions of a mature writer, gloriously mining free verse

or at least visiting

like the rest of us

One of their great pleasures is that they retain a flavour of the speaking voice: enthusiastic

whether it be jazz or any other musical category

including one from the Bush Foundation to support his first novel

Later he is drawn to a mysterious Indian girl

Abdulilah Salhi: Two poems

Frances-Anne King

"The White Page/An Bhileog Bhán is beautifully produced

Composed of fragments of recorded speech

Syed Manzurul (Manzu) Islam was born in 1953 in a small northeastern town in East Pakistan (later Bangladesh)

Ledbury and Latitude Festivals