Book review - poetry

His letters are a deeply moving supplement to his poems

Storm Swimmer is a collection both haunted and nurtured by waters

The Hurting Kind by Ada Limón and My Grief, The Sun by Sanna Wani reviewed

Joie de Vivre by Paul Bailey reviewed

You know you’re in good hands when the dedication reads: ‘To the writers, drinkers and freethinkers of the Arab and Islamic worlds, long may they live.’ Abu Nuwas was all three, and a complete hoot. Why he is so little known in Britain should be a mystery. But outward-looking as we are as a nation, … Read more