The Parley Tree ed. Patrick Williamson (Bilingual English/French) Arc Publications Other modern and contemporary poets

Other modern and contemporary poets and songwriters featured include Gillian Allnutt

and look ahead as she tries to work out what it means to be the one who stays behind

Restlessly inquisitive

Is Not is the kind of book that takes a lifetime to write – a book of the spirit made manifest by the poet’s unrelenting gaze and her intimate engagement with the mysteries that keep us reaching

to create joy despite (or to spite) those forces that would conspire against it

The Parley Tree ed. Patrick Williamson (Bilingual English/French) Arc Publications Other modern and contemporary poetsFeaturing the work of Mohammed Dib, Habib Tengour, Paul Dakeyo, Nimrod, Alain Mabanckou, Tchicaya U Tam'si, Kama Sywor Kamanda, Abdourahman A. Waberi, Tanella Boni, Venus Khoury Ghata, Edouard Maunick, Khal Torabully, Abdellatif Labi, Babacar Sall, Tahar Bekri, Shams Nadir, Amina Sad Edited, translated and introduced by Patrick Williamson Part of our Anthologies in Translation series edited by Jean Boase Beier Poetry is one of the major forms of