Blind SpotsCertain to be one of the most read and talked about poetry collections of the year, Blind Spots is a masterclass of inventive, intelligent, original, and relevant modern poetry. A major voice in contemporary verse, Carol Rumens is admired as much for her technical brilliance as for the range, breadth and subtlety of her subject matter. You might find a sonnet, a sestina, a villanelle but you'll also chance across a pantoum or a ghazal, or a fluid free

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The second feature continues the New Writing in Egypt

Tatyana Voltskaya

INTERVIEW with Mohamed Choukri

and rescuer of greyhounds

From the dark waters of the Styx to the circling birds of the Mabinogion

the film stars Gina McKee and Aidan Gillen

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especially those of or associated with Eastern Europe

But the past is intent on coming for her

was praised for "struggling with difficult truths" and for its mixture of "bold imagery

Jeni Williams and David Woolley