‘Zaban i urdu’ – a poem by Amaan Hyder

Harry Grout on Unsplash Zaban i urdu Zaban i urdu, meaning language of the camp. In Urdu, here is idher …

‘Window in the Rock’ – a poem by Lucy Dixcart

Andrea Sonda on Unsplash Window in the Rock When you glimpse it you’re crammed into a floating bathtub with …

Frans Ruiter on Unsplash Brian Clough in the Rijksmuseum I had four beautiful days in Amsterdam. The weather was gorgeous, …

Photo by Anna Kukhareva on Unsplash Cleaning the Big House Norfolk, England, 2030 It was the English …

Photo by Datingscout on Unsplash Andrew McNeillie’s New and Collected poems, Striking a Match in a Storm, is published this week by Carcanet. …

The below is a translation by Mark McGuinness of a section of Os Lusíadas (‘The Luciads’), an epic poem by the 16th-century Portuguese poet …

Photo by S. Tsuchiya on Unsplash Susumu The sun beat down on Tokyo intensely: Forty-five in the shade. The matsu …

Photo by Javier Balseiro on Unsplash Caiaphas I am content with what I have done in my time, and have …

Photo by Simon Godfrey on Unsplash Manor Farm, Gotherington The walls stooped Under the weight of age. Windows frowned From …