Marking Time Patrick Hicks

Marking Time Patrick HicksPewter Stapleton is drowning under a pile of marking. He teaches creative writing at a university in Sheffield, a campus peopled with malign cost cutting accountants, baffled security staff and colleagues cloning themselves. Pewter is a brilliant comic creation, an endless lister of tasks which are never quite completed, who is strung forever between seriousness and send up, a commitment to his writing and boundless cynicism about writers and the arts

He is a "poet of universality and multiple open visions" noted Lebanese poet Abbas Beydhoun

while the taken-for-granted basics of our human background – day

and all Joe and his family can do is worry

Mariya Kildibekova

Paula Haydar

Praise for Faith

She returned to Co Louth

Gordon Walmsley grew up in New Orleans

of Egyptian novelists Mohamed al-Bisatie and Ezzat el-Kamhawi

a volume of her selected poems in English translation

Yusef Habshi al-Ashqar The Shadow and the Echo

Michael Augustin was born in Lubeck