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viii
voices.
Bakhtiyar Ali
is a preeminent Kurdish
author living in Germany; our excerpt here is from
the first major contemporary Kurdish novel ever
to be translated into English.
French author
Gabriel Arnou-Laujeac
’s poetic
narrative is just exquisite – enough said.
Paweł
Markiewicz
is a Polish poet writing in German who
has now translated his poems into English here.
Catalan poet
Joan Margarit
is one of Spain’s most
unique and acclaimed writers alive today. Besides
his poems, it’s terrific also to share with you his
considered
thoughts on life and poetry(translated
by Anna Crowe), in the Essays section on our site.
In the neo-noir category we’ve got two new crime
stories from German author
Zöe Beck
. And this
issue closes with Greek avant-garde poetry by
Phoebe Giannisi
. Her highly original, multimedia
performance poetry is wild, terrific, incantatory…
intense, intelligent, beautiful, harmonious and
complex… whole, sensitive and meaningful… So be
Editor’s Welcome