“Getting the facts right is not history
Banipal also presents poetry from Syria by three poets writing in three different languages: the late Mamdouh Adwan in Arabic
as they slip in and out of time
and it does much more than revel in secure country childhood
in the interweaving of distinct landscapes and
Dusk: New and Selected Poems Ziba Karbassi “Getting the facts right isI. P. Taylor has been writing about the lost landscapes of the North for over forty years old earthworks, ruined churches, derelict mine workings, Neolithic barrows and deserted villages. Bringing together the best of this work in a single volume, Dusk is a book about enclosure, famine and deforestation, about bleak moorlands, sunken roads, nettles and cobwebs. Exploring between the pages of history, superstition, myth and the threadbare cloak of folk