Real CambridgeCambridge, ancient academic centre and fenland community, science tech centre and centre of radical religious and political thinking, home to grand museums and agricultural cottages. With an American war cemetery, folk festival, iron age fort, evensong and naked bike ride, it is a place alone as former student Grahame Davies finds on his return.

and a TRAVELLING TALE from writer and translator Waiel Ashry in the USA Going to Williamsburg

Michael Swan

Roque Dalton’s (1935–1975) poetry has been widely published in Cuba

George Ewart Evans

plunging headfirst into questions of climate change

the poems in Shara McCallum's latest collection Madwoman are transformative

Against Foreign Office advice he wandered round Yemen

sinister and meditative – ‘the trouble with you

Cover artist: Nabil Abu Hamad

a looking to the future for what is yet to unfold

with appreciation by Brahim Sadi

every half century