Tan Raptures Ahmad Zein Dante in the Laundrette is

Dante in the Laundrette is an early morning walk through hungover Northern streets

Just Like a River by Mohammad Kamel al-Khatib

The Dark Side of Love by Rafik Schami

Although the Austrian poet Georg Trakl was born over a century ago

a flurry of response that is a ‘cosmos or order or harmony in a bag full of hard to categorize leaves’

Tan Raptures Ahmad Zein Dante in the Laundrette isTaking its title from the brown envelopes that strike fear into benefit claimants and the biblical Rapture, Alan Morrisons eighth collection imagines these letters as passports to a twisted Tory notion of salvation through benefit sanction. Tan Raptures is a series of verse missives from the frontline of the war against the poor and its spirit stripping weapons of food banks, poor doors and homeless spikes. Its a peoples history, from Dale Farm and