After Lamia Makaddam Including a foreword from Erika

Including a foreword from Erika Balsom—an ‘intermission’ by Bill Drummond—and an afterword by Nicole Brenez

This is the story told by Ahmad Almallah in Bitter English

When she feeds streams of “official” language – from Supreme Court opinions to the procedural chatter of Predator drone pilots – through the filter of her poetic investigations

This translation presents it as an attempt - in the aftermath of the Trojan War - to remember people's names and lives without the use of writing

music video by Dominic Sen

After Lamia Makaddam Including a foreword from ErikaVivek Narayanan After is a collection of poems inspired by Valmikis Ramayana, one of Asias foundational epic poems and a story cycle of incalculable historical importance. But After does not just come after the Ramayana. On each successive page, Vivek Narayanan brings the resources of contemporary English poetry to bear on the Sanskrit epic. In a work that warrants comparison with Christopher Logues and Alice Oswalds reshapings of Homer, and Anne