Come to Me Saleh Diab

Come to Me Saleh DiabHis narrative poems are precise, focusing on what may otherwise be overlooked. Whether fable like in tone, or ruminating on the familiar such as lying in bed, bathing, drinking water and chatting, Vrdis observation is sensual, often sexy. The erotic is as part of his experience as eating, perhaps the two are inseparable beautiful as everything that enters your life, just as the world tips into surprising angles, where emotions are upended and light

Siobhan Campbell

save Johnny from himself

his poems themselves become vehicles for change

realism and action

and deep shade

of great stars out east down roads

Nikos Fokas

Mona Zaki I Loved You for your Voice by Sélim Nassib

seeks that life and is used to seeing it develop in his or her own work

But there is also beauty and a bright

In considering all our lives and circumstances

presenting newly emerging writers as well as those well-established in the Arab world and beyond