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Kill The Radio

Dorothea Rosa Herliany

Kill The Radio

Dorothea Rosa Herliany is one of the most important contemporary poets writing in Indonesia. This volume presents a selection of her recent verse in the original Bahasa Indonesian and in English translation.

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We of Zipangu

Mutsuo Takahashi

We of Zipangu

We of Zipangu is a selection of the work of Takahashi Mutsuo, one of Japan's leading poets. Like most contemporary Japanese poets, Takahashi writes in free verse style as well as the classic forms of the haiku and the tanka, often dedicating his poems to western writers he admires, among them Jorge Luis Borges, Paul Bowles, Ezra Pound, Michael Longley and Ciaran Carson.

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In the Temple of a Patient God

Bejan Matur

In the Temple of a Patient God

To read Bejan Matur is to walk into a windswept desert strewn with bones and broken bodies and stones stained red by absent gods. Nothing is whole; nothing explains itself; nothing lasts. Horsemen gallop out of the night only to fade into the mountains on the horizon. Gravestones line the roads. Ruined houses howl with wind while shepherds sing dirges about a shattered, scattered tribe left to wander in the dark. It is a haunted, desolate and fragmented landscape in which every stone glows with a grief beyond words...

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The Ramazan Libation

Alamgir Hashmi

The Ramazan Libation

Lyrical, compassionate and personal on the one hand, ironical, political and wryly humorous on the other, these poems take us to America and Europe as well as through the rich, vibrant countryside and cities of Pakistan.

This is poetry which looks both to the East and the West and in so doing, establishes its unique position in English-language poetry — unusual, beautiful and enduring.

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Skimming the Soul

Tariq Latif

Skimming the Soul

Childhood in Pakistan, the problems faced by the immigrant community in Britain, and the contrast between the two cultures, particularly in terms of religious influences, are the central themes in this first collection by the Lahore-born poet now living in Manchester.

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