Vasili Tyorkin Sarah Philpott

Vasili Tyorkin Sarah PhilpottVasili Tyorkin: A Book about a Soldier is one of the great epic poems of the Second World War. Published in army newspapers and broadcast on the radio between 1942 and 1945, it was hugely popular with Soviet soldiers, many of whom believed it was about a real person was real. Private Tyorkin is an accordion playing Everyman figure, who moves between comedy and reluctant heroism. He is a cheerful grumbler always on the lookout for food and a quick kip,

Known only as “The Machine” the device seems to transport Malthrop to different locations in space and time by feeding off his memories and a vast array of sentimental objects and trophies taken by Malthrop from his own past and that of his victims

It includes work from Argentina

In what is still one of the most insightful explorations of the nature of race and ethnicity in colonial and postcolonial societies

Rana al-Tonsi Poems from A Rose for the Last Days

It is a book full of flames and scars

and insights gained from

Mariya Avvakumova

The Anarchist Past and Other Essays is edited by David Goodway whose own writing on anarchism includes (with Colin Ward) Talking Anarchy

“Getting the facts right is not history

the lights on the ceiling

FEATURE ON Syrian poet Saniya Salih (1939-1995)

Henry’s a giant