Citizens Julia Darling who had remained in Iraq

who had remained in Iraq throughout the Saddam era

which – together with the English translations by poet Lesley Saunders – enable an anglophone readership to acquire a sense of the formal

These poems

editor and promoter of poetry

comedy sits alongside tragedy

Citizens Julia Darling who had remained in IraqPossibly the only poet to have published poems in the TLS and the Morning Star on the same day, Ian Parks new collection is a book about the tensions between poetry and politics, the spoken and the unspoken, the public and the private. Accompanied by the ghosts of Ella Fitzgerald, Honeyboy Edwards and the Chartist Poets Ebenezer Elliott and Ernest Jones, Parks listens to the language of the lost and dispossessed as he explores sites of painful