Dear Friend(s) Fred Johnston Saleem Barakat: Excerpts from the

Saleem Barakat: Excerpts from the novel The Crossing of the Flamingo

from George Gissing to Zadie Smith

she begins to fear for Abdelkrim’s safety

Saadi Youssef – TRIBUTE to Mahdi Issa al-Saqr

who died so suddenly in February

Dear Friend(s) Fred Johnston Saleem Barakat: Excerpts from theAnimated by many different types of kinship, the poems in Dear Friend(s) explore webs of experience that wind between parents, extended families and friends. They will take readers back to powerful, often early influences, which result from relations of likeness and empathy as well as blood. The long title poem is an elegy to a specific Dear Friend, dead from AIDS in its earliest years. Its also an elegy for the loss of innocence and freedom of sexual