The woman 
who
 couldn’t 
finish
 things Gerry Murphy

The woman 
who
 couldn’t 
finish
 things Gerry MurphyIn The woman who couldnt finish things Sue MacIntyre shows us a world inhabited by people living real lives. The relationships in this collection of poems are framed by familiar experiences re imagined through memory and dreamscape; things are lost, searched for, found, given away (art and literature, moments of pleasure and grief, a stone that might become a poem, pigeons missing from London streets, the elusiveness of sleep). In the foreground is

this year celebrating his 50th translation of Arabic fiction

author of Deaf Republic and Dancing in Odessa

”This scholarly book

While much of the Arab world is plunged into chaos with wars and devastation

these poems demonstrate an unfailing capacity for surprise

Nasos Vayenas

by unanimous decision

Robert Wyatt

Stretching backwards and forwards within the twentieth century

Includes prize-winning stories as well as previously unpublished works from one of South Africa’s foremost novelists

and Nihad Sirees’s A State of Passion – an enthralling saga of life among the marginalised in 1930s Syria

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