Light YearLight Year by Jennifer Wong is a meditation on time. These poems delve into the mind of a poet crossing spaces of deep wounds, love and healing: a constellation of friendships and love as she moves through upheaval, transformation and change. The collection offers glimpses into the journeys of a migrant, a daughter, and a mother; with the passage of years, the poems ask what it might mean to move like light itself, beyond expectations and into new

and anti-war movements - responding to our contemporary emergencies

] Mental suffering is here shown in all its nocturnal and diurnal detail: the nurses

a hapless prince

the book is lavishly illustrated with line drawings

First published in 1971 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s City Lights in the US

portrayal of the white and light-brown landed and commercial elite

Both are locally well-known

Maillard reflects on how the concept of the “semblable” (one’s other

each serves its own purpose and offers a new layer to the character we’ve come to know so well

and interview with Ghazi Algosaibi

• Selected essays by Khalida Said – on the modernist Arabic poetry movement

and the solidity of language is broken