Banipal 57 – Syria in the Heart Wioletta Greg Lawrence and Stevie Smith as

Lawrence and Stevie Smith as well as modern poets Seamus Heaney

so wonderfully evocative of the spirit Lucas respects and consistently carries forward in his writing' - MLR

it is by this common ground that we might discover where to next

it wasn’t until the nineteenth century

Vivid character portraits of Aunt Alice and Cousin Sidney sit next to tributes to poet predecessors

Banipal 57 – Syria in the Heart Wioletta Greg Lawrence and Stevie Smith asBanipal 57 In the midst of the raging, destructive war that is shattering Syria, Banipal 57 Syria in the Heart presents powerful new poetry and fiction by twelve Syrian authors works that reach out to all with contemplation and compassion in the need to tell the story and the search to understand. The authors are Nouri al Jarrah, Rosa Yassin Hassan, Rasha Omran, Dima Wannous, Hala Mohammad, Maha Hassan and Khaled Khalifa, plus new in English