The Great Henna PartyIf you were to name the person you loved the most, who would you choose? Noors cousin is getting married tomorrow, and tonight, her family is throwing her a henna party. They will sing traditional songs, eat delicious treats, and have their hands painted in swirling designs using a dye called henna. Noor is especially excited to play the henna name game. The henna artist will hide the name of the person Noor loves the most in the pattern she paints on

and the poet is sustained by a deep love of music

truth of the poem

The Stubble Fields

its sudden weeping…’

Llwyd Owen is the author of four Welsh-language novels

The rhythms and repetitive patterns of Caribbean language are a rich component of the story – as is typical of Trish’s work – and the illustrations have that marvellous realism that is a hallmark of Caroline’s many successful books

Hit Parade is a bilingual Russian-English collection of poems by the four leading authors of the Orbita creative collective

Through the story of Iraqi Said Jensen

” Emma Thompson

He has read at numberous international literature festivals and is the recipient of the Friedrich-Hebbel-Prize and the Kurt-Magnus-Prize

Rose Ausländer

does the old writer need to arm himself