The Middleman Samir el-YoussefThe poems in The Middleman refuse to take sides, or rather, they insist on taking all sides. Writing from the United States with a Canadian background and Irish ancestry, Cavanagh straddles a number of borders. With deft language and a compassionate voice, his poems explore complex territories of love, family, work, and nationality through the lens of personal history. They seek lost connections from a Montreal childhood, a funeral procession in Cork,
With the help of her friend Erica
Adel Khozam on The Development of Emirati Modern Poetry
as land muscles unknot and lengthen
”In this collection
the mules are restless
He has twice won the Forward Prize for Best Individual Poem
For several of these well-known Galician poets
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political and cultural contexts) and the emphasis is on close and sensitive reading rather than theory
and an ideal introduction to the 'here and now' of Slovak poetry
