The translator of the first edition in English of Anna Gréki’s “Algérie, capitale, Alger” quotes some lines from a poem where Gréki speaks of wanting to “reveal a certain movement / a certain rhythm, certain relations / of people to a situation”. Sean Sheehan Born in Algeria, her […]
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Nasrin Sotoudeh on poetry, awards, and the refuge of words
The clinking of chains keeps sleep at bay…Thus, resistance turns into poetry—words that sprout from the heart of winter 2018, and, like ivy, climb the prison bars. In this segment, Nasrin Sotoudeh speaks of literature, accolades, and dreams—dreams that no wall could keep confined. Rola Zamzameh* We may […]
Remembering Maria Mercedes and the Casa Silva
Everything collapses … we all collapse. This is what the founder of the Silva Poetry House discovered, on the day that celebrating the hundred year anniversary of an important poet, she ordered a sculpture to be made, in the form of a labyrinth of mirrors. Armando Orozco Tovar […]
Knowing your trees and flowers
Summer is the best time for identifying the trees and flowers making their presence felt around you and there are two new and outstanding guides to help make the task easier. When despair threatens to engulf the spirit, the beauty and value of the natural world becomes more precious than […]
Recording moments of life in refugee camps
In “The Castle”, Richard Mosse deploys hi-tech thermographic cameras of the kind associated with stealth surveillance by the military. He uses the technology to record moments of life in refugee camps and border crossings along the migration routes into Europe from neighbouring continents. Sean Sheehan The site for […]
















