Banipal Magazine - Issue 4 Henry Zoghaib Michael Augustin

Michael Augustin

Ruth Fainlight - who offers us new translations of the important Mexican poet Victor Manuel Mendiola

We don't do lots of useful

Issue 24 announces the new prize for published literary translation from Arabic into English

They gather in the corners of our souls

Banipal Magazine - Issue 4 Henry Zoghaib Michael AugustinIssue 4 includes interviews and appreciations on poet Mahmoud Darwish, novelist Albert Cossery, novelist Yusef Habshi al Ashqar and novelist playwright Ahmed al Fagih. Plus works by 11 poets, six fiction writers and articles on the Arabic Novel. EDITORIAL A door here, a window there opening up the house of Arab literature FEATURE ON MAHMOUD DARWISH Poems, interview and appreciations Poem Without Exile, Who Am I? plus excerpts from The Damascene Ring